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

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 for ...

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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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

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

The medical journal The Lancet recently published a detailed consensus statement classifying obesity as a disease. The ...

It’s time to take your New Year’s resolutions to heart. According to social psychologists, New Year’s resolutions that are too ambitious and not turned into habits are more likely to fail during the ...