Obesity

With 35.4 percent of its residents considered obese, Mississippi had the highest obesity rate in the United States in 2013. Find out where your state fell in the latest Gallup-Healthways poll.

People who are obese spend less than 1 minute per day doing vigorous physical activity, a new study finds.

The obesity rate among children and adults in the United States did not change significantly between 2003-2004 and 2011-2012, new research suggests.

People who live farther north, in colder climates, tend to have more of the intestinal microbes associated with obesity compared to those people at more southern climates.

Kids who are overweight in kindergarten often become obese by the time they're in middle school, a new study finds.

Beyond diet and exercise, microbes may be preventing you from losing weight.

A virus may be making some people gain weight.

A new study calls into question the idea that people can be obese and still be "healthy," finding that, at least over the long term, obesity itself may confer a small increased risk of death.

Behind the trans fat crisis lies a public willingness to simplify nutrition into a battle between good and evil.