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.

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking heated debates in science, media, and beyond. But does this ...

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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 ...

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 ...