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Breast cancer survivor Warrior Megsie muses about how cancer can change your hair—and how fat shaming can make you feel.

Study findings also show that excess body fat and a family history of any cancer may help determine the need for cancer screening.

Alcohol consumption guidelines don’t take into account the greater risk associated with body weight.

Excess body fat, inflammation and insulin resistance are linked to breast cancer in post-menopausal women. Here’s how to lower the risk.

Weight loss, exercise and a healthy diet are keys to managing type 2 diabetes.

Excess weight, which is often linked to metabolic abnormalities, can contribute to a wide variety of health problems.

Weight-loss surgery especially reduced obesity-related cancers in people with liver cirrhosis.

The disease has similar prevalence across high-income and low- and middle-income nations.

The diabetes medication, alone or in combination regimens, led to improvements in NASH and fibrosis.

New guidelines recommend focusing on healthy foods but don’t restrict added sugars or alcohol as much as some experts had hoped.

If you are overweight or obese, losing as little as 7% of your body weight may reduce cancer risk.

A study in obese mice suggests weight loss could slow cancer growth.

Two studies suggest that bariatric surgery may prevent obesity-related cancers, including breast cancer.

A new study on obesity-related cancers says we may have underestimated the risk.

Being obese was linked to a fourfold increase in pancreatic cancer risk.

More than 40 percent of cancers are caused by factors we can control.