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A multidisciplinary team co-led by the UAB has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...

The book describes Winfrey's long-documented struggle with weight loss and reframes obesity as what Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff ...

Mimicking a ketogenic diet lengthens lifespan but reduces fertility in fruit flies, researchers at the University of ...

Do muscles make the man? New research reveals that body fat and BMI play a bigger role in male attractiveness than most ...

A randomized, double-blind multicenter trial in Lancet HIV reported reductions in hepatic fat fraction in HIV-associated ...

Researchers have discovered that mimicking cold exposure or fasting can trigger an immune response in the body that slows ...

Shedding pounds almost invariably brings health benefits. But until now, it has been unclear to what extent weight loss also ...

Among the trillions of microbes that live in the gut, one obscure bacterium has suddenly become a star of obesity research.

Stubborn belly fat after 50 can feel impossible to lose. You might be doing everything right—or so you think—and that lower belly pooch just won’t budge. Here’s the truth: it’s not impossible, but it ...