The notion of potentially healthy obesity is a myth, with most obese people slipping into poor health and chronic illness over time, a new British study claims. The "obesity paradox" is a theory that ...

Aging in later life is often portrayed as a steady slide toward physical and cognitive decline. But a new study by scientists at Yale University suggests an alternate narrative - that older ...

Even in the absence of metabolic abnormalities, people who are obese are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease than their normal-weight peers, according to a large, contemporary population-based ...