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

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 ...

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

Sugar-sweetened drinks typically offer scant nutritional value, and research shows habitual consumption can raise the risk of ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...