Obesity has now become a huge public health issue not only in the developed world but also in developing countries. In view ...

Under Japan’s Metabolic Syndrome Countermeasures Act, all citizens between the ages of 40 and 74 undergo annual health checkups.

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One American study that followed adults across the winter holiday period of roughly six to eight weeks found an average gain ...

Research has suggested that the average Briton consumes around 6,000 calories on Christmas Day alone. Yet experts believe ...

A significant Arctic blast expected to hit the U.S. starting later this week will bring the coldest air of the season, ...

Inadequate sleep can have negative downstream effects on everyday cognitive functioning and mental health, which can then ...

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when ...

Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical ...

University of Iowa doctoral degree candidate Kaitriana Colling is paving the way for nonsurgical treatment for uterine cancer ...

Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when you woke up from what should have been a full night’s sleep. For the rest of ...