People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Overweight scores continue from 25-30. And over 30 is obese. Quetelet merely used this early calculation as a descriptor. He did not make any medical proclamations. The Quetelet Index became ...

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

Sierra Hufham went viral for a TikTok video about how "fat" women can date "hot guys." She tells PEOPLE how she met her "ripped" husband and how she worked on her self-esteem in the year before they ...

MANY fat people do not actually need to lose weight, scientists claim. They say a significant number are perfectly healthy and obesity is “overdiagnosed”. Scientists reckon many people classed ...

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

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...