Davian Koren is a Fillmore County home school student, one of 15 area students participating in the Journal Writing Project, now in its 26th year.

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

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According to Trace One, when factoring in eating habits, food insecurity rates, alcohol consumption, and the prevalence of ...

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) shares are rallying 6.87% to $86.67 as of 10:27 AM ET Friday, after the company reported promising trial results for its new obesity drug, amycretin. Warning! GuruFocus has ...

Viking's obesity-drug program is progressing well. Now management is thinking about manufacturing tie-ups. Viking Therapeutics Inc.'s stock jumped 3% Tuesday, after a bullish note from Oppenheimer ...

LONDON – Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and adding broader measurements such as heart health. The ...

The newest weight-loss drugs, Wegovy and Zepbound, are incredibly popular. But doctors are still learning about all of the ways they affect the body—both helpful and harmful—beyond reducing ...

The Lancet medical journal’s Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission last week proposed a new definition and method for diagnosing obesity, beyond simply looking at a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI), the ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the effects have repercussions later in life and the risk of serious health problems and premature death is lower as they reach young ...