Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that can inflict substantial harm to a person’s health. Learn about obesity causes and obesity health effects.

Most people who have metabolic syndrome have insulin resistance. This may be a beginning of the development of type 2 diabetes.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that greatly raises your risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Control your blood pressure, keep your cholesterol in check, and take your medicine as prescribed.

The disorder may develop when others make repeated negative comments about a person's weight.

Medical treatment can help with weight loss if your own efforts are unsuccessful—or if you have a medical condition that makes it crucial to lose weight.

Gastric bypass surgery involves bypassing a part of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients. For this reason, these surgeries are referred to as malabsorptive procedures.

Keeping extra weight off requires effort and commitment, just as losing weight does.

Given the chronic diseases and conditions associated with obesity and the fact that obesity is difficult to treat, prevention is extremely important.

Gastric stapling surgery is a type of weight loss surgery that limits the amount of food a person can eat.

Whatever treatment plan a person follows, losing weight slowly will be more effective and healthy over the long term.