A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

Unlike many other diseases, there are no set guidelines on treatment targets for obesity, and outcomes often rely on ...

A pair of doctors have teamed up to show a simple trick which could be better tool to measure someone's health than body mass ...

Centered Thinking Weight-centric approaches to health have dominated medical practice for decades, but the consequences are ...

ENJOYING a Saturday lunch with my mates, I turn to a friend who has just arrived and instantly questioned her about her size ...

The stereotype of someone with anorexia is an extremely skinny teen girl. But you can suffer from anorexia in any size body, ...

The size of a person’s neck relative to their body can predict various health markers, studies have found. Research has shown that the size of a person’s neck in proportion to their body can be an ...

Explore the critical link between obesity and cancer, highlighting risks, prevention, and innovative treatments for better ...

In a retrospective analysis, patients with colon cancer taking GLP-1 agonists had a 62% lower risk of 5-year mortality ...