Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD Overweight and obesity are conditions in which you weigh more than what is ...

A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis examined the distribution of people by obesity level using the European ...

About 32% of children and teenagers, ages 2 to 19, were overweight in 2012 and about 17% were obese in the United States. Parents in the Australian study also fared poorly.

“Persons who are overweight or obese based on BMI may have larger amounts of subcutaneous fat in the hips and legs—fat linked to healthier metabolic profiles,” the study authors write.

New guidelines for treating childhood obesity include medication and surgery 05:20. More than half of the world's population will be obese or overweight by 2035, according to a new report from the ...