An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Instead of BMI, the commission recommends that obesity be diagnosed through one of these methods: Using another measurement ...

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

Indian doctors have redefined obesity with new guidelines that consider the unique health challenges faced by the population.

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity by reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

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A team of Indian doctors, including from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has in a new study published ...

That is the conclusion of a report by the global Commission on Clinical Obesity – published in The Lancet Diabetes and ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health problems can ... A new definition of obesity could help people with ...

In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are ...