Hormones can be helpful heroes, supporting the immune system and a healthy sleep-wake schedule. But they can also be culprits ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

Diabetes and obesity are two metabolic diseases characterized by insulin resistance and a low-grade inflammation. Seeking an inflammatory factor causative of the onset of insulin resistance ...

Research indicates mulberry extract's efficacy in addressing obesity-related male infertility, enhancing reproductive outcomes through bioactive compounds.

Koreans who are obese or overweight are less likely to kill themselves than those who are of average weight or under, a study ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental ...

A 2020 analysis found that adults who slept fewer than 7 hours per night had a 41% increased risk of developing obesity ... ghrelin and decreases levels of leptin. Ghrelin is a hormone that ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure. The new guidance comes from the ...

Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors.

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. On Jan 14, 2025, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria ...