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.

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.

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.

You won’t believe this, but Spain’s top fashion show recently rejected models for being too thin. That’s right—somewhere in hell, a snowball is having the last laugh.

The show’s organizers told the Associated Press that they want to encourage an image of health and beauty instead of emaciation. Hopefully, this unprecedented action will start a trend. As long as the starvation look is in vogue, millions of women and men will suffer from disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.

Experts at an international conference about obesity say governments should impose bans on junk food advertising aimed directly at children. Doctor Claude Bouchard is head of the Pennington Research Center at L-S-U, and president of …

A recent Arizona Republic article highlighted the “Chile pepper could aid weight loss”,particularly Chile pepper effectiveness at helping people lose weight. It’s long been thought that capsaicin, the same thing that makes peppers hot, can …

At 34 years old and 375 pounds, Ami Ruby had never been on a date, much less had a boyfriend. She was ashamed of her body, and ran from any type of intimacy, even with …

A SELF-CONFESSED South Yorkshire chocaholic desperate to lose weight so she could fit into designer clothes died days after undergoing obesity surgery, an inquest heard.
Lynda Taylor, aged 33, from Rotherham, suffered a severe reaction to …

The risk of complications after weight loss or "bariatric" surgery increases slightly for each additional year over age 60, according to a report in the Archives of Surgery. The results also confirm previous reports that …