A drug designed to target a powerful hunger-stimulating factor that has long been considered a prime target for antiobesity therapy failed to produce clinically meaningful weight loss in obese people in a long-term clinical trial. …

If you’re heavy and want to trim down, a comment such as “You’ve gained weight!” could be the best thing you’ve ever heard.

One of the best ways to lower pressure is to lose weight if you are overweight. Weight loss reliably brings pressure down. Cut way back on salt. That means avoiding salty foods, like most commercial soups and luncheon meats.

Fiber is an important part of a healthy diet, but did you know it can help you in your weight loss efforts? Filling up on fiber can help you to feel full for longer, therefore causing you to eat less overall which will result in healthy weight loss.

Clark Memorial Hospital in Southern Indiana will begin offering weight-loss, or bariatric, surgery this fall for the treatment of morbid obesity.

Specifically, the hospital will offer the Lap-Band procedure, which reduces the amount of food a person can eat by placing an adjustable silicone band around the upper portion of the stomach.

The Travis County Commis-sioners Court reversed the decision to include diet, exercise and bariatric weight loss plans and surgeries in Travis County employees’ health-care insurance Tuesday.

A week overdue with her first child, Katie Holmes ballooned to the size of a small house.

But just five months after the birth of her daughter Suri, the 27-year-old actress is back to her super-svelte pre- pregnancy weight.

Weight loss in people over 65 can be the result of normal aging, but new research suggests that it may also be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia…

The Travis County commissioners approved using county tax dollars to pay for a weight loss surgery for county employees.

Researchers from Pittsburgh found that women often begin to take up smoking again after pregnancy with fears of gaining weight.