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

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

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

Habits like getting adequate exercise, nutrition, and sleep can have profoundly positive effects on overall health whether ...

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

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

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

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

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

Clinical obesity defined as chronic illness resulting from effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.