Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

MANY fat people do not actually need to lose weight, scientists claim. They say a significant number are perfectly healthy and obesity is “overdiagnosed”. Scientists reckon many people classed ...

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 ...

With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time, the 35-year-old mother-of-three and body-positive activist was hovering on the cusp of obesity – which starts at a BMI of 30. But can people who ...

Sierra Hufham went viral for a TikTok video about how "fat" women can date "hot guys." She tells PEOPLE how she met her "ripped" husband and how she worked on her self-esteem in the year before they ...

The National Health Service (NHS) staffers in the UK have been told not to call fat people "obese" in guidance issued by the medicine watchdog, according to a report in The Telegraph. The National ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience. By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard ...

Staff told to avoid words such as ‘diabetic’, ‘alcoholic’ and ‘smoker’ in advice Lord Young calls ‘a fat lot of help’ NHS staff have been told not to call fat people “obese” in ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The whole ...