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 ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many experts and ...

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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 ...