For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

Researchers have quantified the role of obesity in common long-term conditions, showing for the first time the effect of ...

Adult obesity in the United States has gone up over the past 30 years. Here's a look at why.

Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, with supporters on either side. In a newly published report, the Global ...

The novel metabolic predictor emphasizes central adiposity, while integrating metabolites and other measures of metabolic ...

(CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major ...

Using data culled from nearly 11 million people, the researchers found that just over 19% were obese in 1990, compared to ...

Body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, may be woefully inadequate. May 2, 2010— -- The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual ...

Are good health and obesity mutually exclusive? Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s starting to change — with ...