Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

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