A US medical society has written to tell us that some of its members will be unable to contribute to journal activities. This ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...
The pharmaceutical industry came up with medicine that stops people from craving processed, addictive foods and the food industry is in a panic.
In November 2023 Colombia imposed a tax on highly processed foods and drinks. Authorities in Brazil, Canada and Peru have ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Ozempic in 2021 for weight loss treatment ushered in a new era for the class ...
For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...
A report published last week in “The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology” strives to redefine obesity. An international group convened to examine the longstanding concept and are recommending better ...
The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...
For Black women and femmes who are navigating a system that is anti-Black and high stress, to even receive a diagnosis for an eating disorder presents its own challenges. Black women report higher ...