Fourth most common disease caused by obesity: Stroke This one should be fresh in everyone's mind, as we covered the top three risk factors for stroke last weekend.

Climbing obesity rates around the world aren't a concern; they've now become a full-fledged problem. Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. In the "Global Burden of Disease" report from ...

Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and knee osteoarthritis. Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI.

Climbing obesity rates around the world aren't a concern; they've now become a full-fledged problem. Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. In the "Global Burden of Disease" report from the ...

What good does a starvation diet do if obesity is caused by a virus? August 20, 2013— -- When the American Medical Association classified obesity as a disease, Nikhil Dhurandhar, a researcher ...

In contrast, in the case of obesity with already damaged organs, tissues, functions, systems, we would be talking about a true disease caused by excess fat tissue," emphasizes the head of the ...

Recent revelations showing that U.S. government scientists overestimated the number of deaths caused by obesity has left health officials struggling to convince the public that being overweight is ...

Climbing obesity rates around the world aren't a concern; they've now become a full-fledged problem. In the "Global Burden of Disease" report from the World Health Organization, which was compiled ...

Climbing obesity rates around the world aren't a concern; they've now become a full-fledged problem. Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. In the "Global Burden of Disease" report from the ...