Viewers of The Biggest Loser would probably agree that watching the weight-loss show fills them with inspiration. Seeing the obese contestants struggle should motivate us to eat better, exercise and ...

"People [were] stigmatized very much," the 'Divorce Court' star said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

While childhood trauma on its own can often predict disordered eating and a poor relationship with food in adults, according to a 2022 study, growing up as an overweight kid is its own kind of trauma ...

Medically reviewed by Roxana Ehsani, RD Key Takeaways BMI is a common method to define overweight and obesity.Obesity is a ...

Research suggests there is not clear consensus about preferred terms to describe body size. Terms to describe body size in ...

Is our society unnecessarily mean to people who are overweight? Should we start thinking more about what some call "fat acceptance"? We often hear late-night comedians make jokes about overweight ...

All people are created equal—that is, unless they’re fat. Although overweight and obesity affect two-thirds of Americans, the public is as troubled by obese people as young Haley Joel Osment was when ...

I was among friends the other night, listening to a doctor go off about how health care in this country costs so much because Americans are fat. If she had to see one more obese mother feed her ...

Star Jones, 63, said it “was shameful to be an overweight person” earlier in her career while recently talking about her experience working in the public eye on the Behind the Table podcast The ...