A new study suggests that 'middle-aged' spread or having a beer belly could make people increasingly more likely to develop ...

The physicians tied a specific type of body fat, known as visceral fat, to higher levels of abnormal proteins in the brain ...

A new study links visceral fat, a deep layer of abdominal fat, to increased brain amyloid and tau proteins—key markers of Alzheimer’s disease—decades before dementia symptoms arise.

Decades before the first signs of memory loss appear, a hidden type of body fat might be signaling the early stages of ...

ALZHEIMER’S disease could be detected up to 20 years before symptoms start to show, as scientists say that body fat could ...

On Thanksgiving eve, U.S. diplomats reunited family members who had not seen each other in years because of China’s harsh ...

Public health experts abhor RFK Jr.'s conspiracy theories but hold out hope he might reign in ultraprocessed foods.

In this study, researchers examined data from more than 11,000 U.S. Census tracts across 38 states to understand if access to healthy foods served as a pathway through which historical redlining leads ...

Dr. Oz has extolled Ozempic’s promise for weight-loss. Now Medicare, which Trump wants Oz to oversee, may cover it.

People who are obese and harbor deep belly fat are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease-specific proteins in the ...

Nonmainstream doctors and health leaders are wielding serious muscle in shaping the incoming administration’s health policies ...

In the opening pages of his book “ Crunchy Cons ,” published in 2006, the conservative writer Rod Dreher described leaving ...