Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

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A fat activist explains why she objects to the medicalization of larger bodies and the idea that obesity is a disease.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

While an underactive thyroid can slow down metabolism, resulting in some weight gain, it is rarely the sole cause of massive ...

Obesity has achieved epidemic proportions and ... and psychosocial impairments. Given the fact that intentional weight loss improves many of these comorbidities, [4] much effort has gone into ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A new proposal to radically overhaul the way obesity is diagnosed may have “profound ramifications” for people’s access to ...

The mission of the Houston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (H-NORC) is to enhance the multidisciplinary nature and quality of research in obesity and nutritional sciences by providing shared access ...