Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esther Hollander had pain and decreased mobility beginning in 2020. Her doctors told her the symptoms were related to obesity.

After losing 350 pounds, Jaqueline Adan often felt frustrated that her legs still looked so big. If she asked her doctors why, they told her to lose more weight. “I can’t be like ‘OK, body, now lose ...

Esther Hollander struggled with her weight her whole life. Little did she know she had a condition that prevented diet and exercise from helping her lose weight. "Growing up, weight was very much tied ...

In college Judy Maggiore remembers looking in the mirror, perplexed by her body’s disproportion. "I was skinny. I was a stick. The upper part of my body was really, really thin. You could see my ribs!

My voluptuous pear shape is common among the women in my family. Our trademark big thighs and wide hips appeared early on my adolescent body, though, and worried my parents, who had also questioned ...

For more than 40 years, 52-year-old Joann Weaver has lived with lipedema, a condition where fat builds up abnormally, usually ...

Lipedema is a chronic and often misdiagnosed condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While researchers are still working to fully understand the underlying causes and risk factors, recent ...

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Sameerah Al Khdhairi never thought twice about spending hours standing in front of a stove cooking bowls of biryani. Now her time is spent sitting at home, crying and praying. Al Khdairi, who grew up ...