New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

A global commission presents a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

“That’s why,” says Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, professor of medicine, Metabolic Research Group, AIIMS, “obesity has to be ...

BMI provided a shaky foundation for understanding obesity. A committed policy response must now accompany a shift to more ...

Ozempic and Wegovy do the same thing as GLP-1 would normally do for you — but to enable them to treat diabetes and obesity, ...

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 ...

This week, a group of researchers have called for doctors to stop using the Body Mass Index, or BMI, to define obesity. It's ...