Booster Shots
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Nov. 24, 2009
Science & Medicine
If you dread the prospect of hauling your lazy rear end to the gym more often in 2017, new research suggests the extra weight you’ve been carrying around may be to blame.
Dec. 29, 2016
When wondering whether genes are contributing to your struggle with weight, a new study suggests it might be useful to look within -- at the garden of bacteria growing in your gut.
Nov. 6, 2014
Maybe Alice in Wonderland was on to something, nibbling on a mushroom to make herself shrink.
June 23, 2015
As the U.S. obesity rate has galloped toward 40%, doctors, drug designers and dispirited dieters have all wondered the same thing: What if a pill could deliver the benefits of weight-loss surgery, but without the knife?
Oct. 19, 2017
World & Nation
New statistics on death rates in the United States appear to confirm a grim prediction — that obesity is reversing decades of steady expansion in Americans’ life spans, according to a Harvard University researcher calling for more and better research and the urgent adoption of policies that could improve Americans’ food and drink choices.
April 4, 2016
After nearly four decades of rising body weights in the United States and across the world, medical experts are still casting about for the best way to treat obesity and the diseases that come with it.
Jan. 17, 2018
Oct. 6, 2009
Researchers link ‘obesity gene’ to hunger hormone
July 16, 2013