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With teen obesity at its highest it has ever been, and the continuous pressure of attaining super model thin bodies, research suggest teens who identify themselves as being fat when they are not can lead to obesity later in life.

A team of international researchers have analyzed data from the UN and the WHO to conclude that humanity is 17 million tons overweight. Only North America, the authors say, comprises a third of the obese people in the world.

Children with friends who are more physically active tend to become more active themselves, new research finds.

Television viewing and unhealthy eating habits in US adolescents appear to be linked in a national survey of students in the fifth to 10th grades, according to a report published in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a...

There is a long-held concern that youths who eat a lot of fast food are at risk for becoming overweight. New research shows that greater familiarity with fast-food restaurant advertising on television is associated with obesity in young people.

As adults, we know that self-control and delaying gratification are important for making healthful eating choices, portion control, and maintaining a healthy weight.

Some people may eat more because they have certain genes, a new study says.

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Obesity will soon create a shortage of organ donors in U.S, says a new study presented at National Kidney Foundation's 2012 Spring Clinical Meetings.

Why does one person become anorexic and another obese? Researchers have now shown that reward circuits in the brain are sensitized in anorexic women and desensitized in obese women.

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After a busy week with short nights, many use the weekend to make up for lost hours of sleep. Not a healthy habit, says researcher Paulien Barf of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

While eating too much food can cause obesity, the fear of not having enough food may lead to the same result, according to a study.

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Can lack of sleep make you fat? A new paper which reviews the evidence from sleep restriction studies reveals that inadequate sleep is linked to obesity.

In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated in a new study.

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Association may spark research into possible biological mechanism...