The notion of potentially healthy obesity is a myth, with most obese people slipping into poor health and chronic illness over time, a new British study claims. The "obesity paradox" is a theory that ...

Even in the absence of metabolic abnormalities, people who are obese are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease than their normal-weight peers, according to a large, contemporary population-based ...

Echoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of 'social displacement' -- the alienation of people from friends and family in ...

New research on the relationship between immigration and crime dispels the notion that more immigration leads to more crime, according a pair of academics who spent three years analyzing two decades ...