Back in the early 1960s, the U.S. government concluded that smoking caused cancer and was killing millions of Americans. In 1964, the government released the Office of the Surgeon General's Report on ...

Research is important to us for many reasons. Sometimes, for example, research results in a new treatment (e.g., Alexander ...

Why do two people eat the same meal but only one gains weight? Doctors say the answer isn’t willpower or diet.

Government regulation of the tobacco industry, including advertising restrictions and warning labels, has significantly reduced smoking rates. Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic, linked to the ...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans (63%) know that obesity is a chronic disease rather than a personal failure and more than 8 in ...

Obesity rates have remained roughly the same in the U.S. over the past two years, but remain high nationwide — especially in the Midwest and South. (Getty Images) More than one in five American adults ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with obesity in young or middle adulthood have a greater chance of having adverse heart structure and ...

Hill, who has more than 40 years of expertise in obesity treatment and serves as director of UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center, says we do know some things about what happens when patients stop ...