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.

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 ...

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 ...

Top Republicans are passing around a 50-page list of ideas on how to cover the cost of a tax cut and immigration crackdown ...

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

Compared with poor response, good response to obesity treatment was associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes (adjusted ...

others who aren’t athletes but have excess fat may have a high BMI but no associated health problems. BMI is therefore an ...

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...