Being overweight has long been linked to heart conditions and type 2 diabetes, but even people who look thinner could be at risk, researchers suggest. The findings, published in Communications ...

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Weight is an eternally-pressing topic, but conversations around GLP-1s and other weight loss drugs have brought it to the forefront even more. Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to ...

A new study has concluded that being too thin can be more deadly than being overweight or mildly obese—and with researchers concluding it is possible to be 'fat but fit'. The scientists followed ...

It’s relatively common knowledge that body weight is associated with the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, but the recently revealed link between weight and diabetes-related mortality has many ...

New research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting 2025 suggests that people who are underweight or at the lower end of a “healthy” body mass index (BMI) face ...

Here's how therapists say you can teach your kids that “fat” isn’t a bad word and that weight fluctuation throughout life is entirely normal. Getty Images Growing up in the ’90s, Jessica Sprengle ...