Nutrition and Fitness News

Limiting ultraprocessed food consumption could prevent thousands of deaths in Brazil each year, according to researchers.

Mothers with multiple children or with one child aged 4 years or younger participated in less moderate or vigorous physical activity compared with mothers with school-aged children, according to study data.

Marijuana has implications for weight and metabolism — but perhaps not in the ways one might expect, according to a speaker at the 2022 Overcoming Obesity conference.

Findings from the STEP TEENS phase 3a trial showed that adolescents with obesity who received Wegovy had a significant decrease in BMI compared with those who received placebo.

Physical activity and nutritional diets are among the key prevention and treatment strategies recommended by the Obesity Medicine Association for obesity-related cancer and fatty liver.

CHICAGO — Among patients with peripheral artery disease, those with food insecurity had elevated risk for a major CV event, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Using smartphones as motion sensors may be the key to population-level analysis for mortality risk, researchers wrote.

The International Food Information Council uses media outlets to counter information on the negative impacts of sugars and processed foods, according to a new study published in Globalization and Health.

Exercising regularly may improve effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, and the benefits appear to rise with activity levels, according to researchers.

The most-viewed content on TikTok related to food, nutrition and weight focuses on weight-normative messaging, according to a study published in PLOS One.