Obesity

Obesity Body Mass Index scores

How to measure your body mass index – and what it means for your health

Children's Health

More research shows benefits of bariatric surgery for obese teens with type 2 diabetes

Bariatric diabetes

Children's Health

Bariatric surgery found safe for teens with morbid obesity, Penn research finds

Bariatric surgery

Children's Health

Pennsylvania youth rank among the most obese in the country

Pennsylvania Childhood Obesity Rate

High lead levels during pregnancy may increase risk of childhood obesity

Childhood obesity lead exposure

New Jersey has the fifth-lowest rate of adult obesity in the country, study says

New Jersey obesity rate runner

Ergonomics 101: How to avoid fatigue with a desk job

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Children's Health

Weight Watchers launches controversial app to help kids lose weight

ww weight loss app kids teens

Are BPA-free plastics and cans as safe as advertised?

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Heart transplant doctors could help more people by accepting donations from obese

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These states are the most obese in America

Obesity 07192019

Children's Health

Philly rolls out 'I Call the Snacks' campaign targeting sugary foods

Call The Snacks Philly

Men gain more weight during freshman year than women, study finds

Burger Fries

Coffee proves to be a fat-burning, obesity-fighting beverage in 'pioneering' study

coffee obesity prevention

Children's Health

Obesity rates falling among preschool age children

Childhood obesity rates are falling, CDC study finds

Alcohol is a risk factor for breast cancer — and few women know that

alcohol breast cancer risk

The Philadelphia soda tax, while regressive, saves lives of those most at risk

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Obesity-related cancers hitting millennials hard, new study finds

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Want to start a fitness habit for the new year?

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New data from the CDC suggests U.S. adults are only getting shorter and heavier

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Doctors remove a 70-pound tumor from man who thought he had a 'beer belly'

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The key for low-income populations to lose weight? An app, this study suggests

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There are many types of obesity – which one matters to your health

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Does thinking you look fat affect how much money you earn?

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Drexel launches outpatient clinic for eating disorders, weight management

The Drexel Dragon on Drexel University's campus in Philadelphia.

Today’s special: Obamacare menu labeling rules ushered in

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Penn study: Improvements in U.S. mortality rate offset by obesity

Buffet Line

This common oral hygiene habit could increase risk for diabetes, study says

Fast eater? It could harm your heart and waistline

Study: Suburban living linked to higher rates of obesity

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Study: Diet not helping to lose weight? Try a day (or several) off

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Medical Research

Skin patch has potential to melt away 'love handles'

Uneven weight-loss could be a trap for obesity, Drexel study finds

Study: Walnuts can quiet that part of your brain that makes you want to eat like crap

Obesity and depression are entwined, yet scientists don’t know why

Philadelphia ranks high for smoking, binge drinking and other unhealthy behaviors

Mindful Mondays

9 life-mods to help ward off dementia

Study: Body shaming can literally make people sick

Children's Health

Study: Obese parents, including dads, linked with developmental delays in children

Study: New Jersey weighs in as third-thinnest state in America

Report: Adult obesity rates nearly doubled in tri-state area since 1995

Study says pasta doesn't make you fat, but there's one thing

Philadelphia recognized for progress in reducing childhood obesity

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