Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This includes factors within your control, like your diet and physical ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This ...

Abdominal obesity, commonly known as a pot belly, is a growing concern among Indians due to changing lifestyles, dietary habits, and limited physical activity. Let's see how it impacts our health and ...

Previously, Mendelian randomization (MR) studies have explored the causal relationship between smoking and abdominal obesity using a single genetic variant for smoking heaviness. Similarly, a recent ...

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Malaga, Spain (11-14 May), reveals that 3- to 4- year olds in rural areas are more likely to be living with overweight ...

A doctor may diagnose obesity based on the following factors: excess amounts of abdominal (visceral) fat that are higher than the amounts of body fat in other areas, a waist circumference of greater ...

A study published in the journal Aging Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that having both excess belly fat and low ...

Belly fat is more dangerous than you think. Here's how obesity in India is silently damaging your heart and increasing the ...

Many people think that weight alone is the main measure of health. However, new research suggests that what matters more is how much of that weight is fat and how much is muscle. A recent study has ...

Urban India is seeing a sharp rise in hidden belly fat, with new data linking lifestyle shifts to higher diabetes and heart ...

Several areas of the brain, including regions that play a critical role in learning and memory and in the control of emotions, are larger in adolescents who are living with obesity, new research being ...