CHICAGO -- U.S. life expectancy will fall dramatically in coming years because of obesity, a startling shift in a long-running trend toward longer lives, researchers contend in a report published ...

The United States is set to fall in worldwide life expectancy ranking by mid-century, with widespread obesity adversely impacting people’s health, according to a recent study. The peer-reviewed study, ...

Life expectancy in the US already falls behind many other developed countries, putting us in 49th place in global rankings in 2022 — but a new report says we’ll drop even further to 66th place in 2050 ...

A new USC Schaeffer Center white paper finds expanded access to anti-obesity medications would lead to significant increases in life expectancy and disease-free years while generating a substantial ...

President Trump's physician released his latest medical report revealing a BMI of 29.7 — just shy of the clinical obesity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The infant mortality rate is lower in China than in the Unites States. How else do the two countries stack up? (Costfoto/NurPhoto ...

Nearly all of Louisiana’s adults and the majority of the state’s adolescents are projected to be overweight or obese by 2050, according to a new study tracking the dramatic rise in obesity since 1990 ...