Viewers of The Biggest Loser would probably agree that watching the weight-loss show fills them with inspiration. Seeing the obese contestants struggle should motivate us to eat better, exercise and ...

While childhood trauma on its own can often predict disordered eating and a poor relationship with food in adults, according to a 2022 study, growing up as an overweight kid is its own kind of trauma ...

Star Jones, 63, said it “was shameful to be an overweight person” earlier in her career while recently talking about her experience working in the public eye on the Behind the Table podcast The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion ...

Experts have revealed that even obese people can still be physically fit and capable of serving in high-demand positions like the military. Earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth slammed ...

Carrying extra weight affects far more than appearance. It can influence how you’re treated by doctors, how your body functions, how you move through daily life, or how you navigate a world that ...

I was among friends the other night, listening to a doctor go off about how health care in this country costs so much because Americans are fat. If she had to see one more obese mother feed her ...

All people are created equal—that is, unless they’re fat. Although overweight and obesity affect two-thirds of Americans, the public is as troubled by obese people as young Haley Joel Osment was when ...

Is our society unnecessarily mean to people who are overweight? Should we start thinking more about what some call "fat acceptance"? We often hear late-night comedians make jokes about overweight ...

New research from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and the University of Calgary shows intermittent fasting can ...