"The most serious health problem in t...  ...most serious health problem in the U.S. today is obesity ." The all-too-familiar sentence st...  ...ll-too-familiar sentence started an article about obesity in America that would fit right at home...  ...he most astonishing and troubling...

Obesity has grown into such a big problem that it's even...  ...control of individuals, which is contributing to obesity

Obesity is now officially a disease. The American...  ...merican Medical Association has formally declared obesity as a disease, a move that effectively defined one...  ...sion essentially makes diagnosis and treatment of obesity a physician's professional obligation. As su...

Watch this CDC map change from 1985 to 2010 -and g...  ...percentage of people medically defined as obese. Obesity was once an odd condition, but for the U.S. it ju...  ...n areas that have the lowest and highest rates of obesity

From the department of obvious research, an unscientific online poll by the Guardian finds that men are four times more likely than women to underestimate how overweight they are.More than 300,000 people fed their height...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that...  ...drinks make a bigger difference in overall child obesity . Link(Image credit: Flickr user David Goehring)

Good news: Americans are exercising more and smoking less ... Bad news: ... yet we are getting fatter than ever. Probably because we're drinking more (with bad news like these, who can blame yo...

[http://youtu.be/myxwCEGcBYc] (YouTube link)What if polar bears really drank cola like they do in the Coke ads? This video from Center for Science in the Public Interest explains some of the consequences of drinking soda...

Throughout history, whether because of abundant fo...  ...ncestor and namesake, possibly due in part to his obesity . During his reign Arab pirates raided Italy with...

The fictional "Stop Childh...  ...The fictional "Stop Childhood Obesity " campaign, one of the mildest exam...