New criteria that put greater emphasis on body composition to diagnose obesity show greater prevalence of the disease in the ...

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 ...

This would not be the first time that public-health experts have prematurely celebrated the peak of America’s obesity crisis.

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by ...

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that relies solely on body mass index or BMI. Now health care experts say one-size ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity. Instead of relying only on body mass index (BMI), which has some limitations, the new framework introduces ...

Medical experts propose new obesity measurements that would classify 70% of American adults as obese, moving beyond ...

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Adolescents who achieved a BMI reduction of at least 10% at 26 weeks with a reduced-calorie diet had significant decreases in ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding ...