Fat Loss Victory

For U.S. children, the challenge maintain a normal weight is not an easy one: The studies -- published in a special supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine -- show the myriad challenges youngsters face every day in trying to maintain a...

There is much talk about what role the public school system must take in confronting childhood obesity. The worst thing to do is to keep talking and take no action. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial points out the politics involved in Georgia...

Not surprisingly, obesity in the workplace has measurable costs and consequences for businesses: Obese workers filed twice the number of workers' compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from those claims and lost 13 times more days of...

Obesity is a major public health crisis, as statistics show. How society and government should respond is often debated and discussed. Recently in the news is the effort of city council in Los Angeles to use zoning laws reduce the number of fast foods...

University of Washington researchers have found remarkable disparities of obesity rates between Seattle's most affluent and least affluent neighorhoods: ...The rates range from less than 10 percent in parts of central Seattle and Bellevue to more than...