Weight loss surgery is a last resort for morbidly obese teenagers. For those that do receive the operation, researchers are finding it is offering them benefits in addition to shedding extra pounds.

Moms-to-be who are both overweight and smokers are more than twice as likely to have a baby with a congenital heart defect than women who are either overweight or a smoker but not both.

Baffled by how to best help your obese child? The key may be a positive treatment program filled with plenty of praise and parental involvement.

A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but a review of studies on dietary fiber shows including enough of it in your diet might mean avoiding medicine in the first place.

The number of strokes experienced by Americans is declining, but substantial heart health improvements are still needed as larger, higher calorie meals become more popular and obesity continues to rise.

Getting your heart into better shape isn't just about losing weight. Improving your fitness level even without weight loss reduces your risk of dying.

Diabetes affects many parts of the body, including the heart. So, how should you protect the health of your heart if you have diabetes? The answer may lie in what you eat.

With heart disease and obesity on the rise, experts are suggesting that candy might not be the best treat to give trick or treaters this Halloween. Stickers and other non-candy items can be just as fun without the health consequences.

Being obese at any age isn't healthy. For adolescent girls, however, it could have dangerous implications on their blood pressure.

When children are overweight their risk of high blood pressure increases to nearly three times higher than that of children of a normal weight.