In a video, the two doctors refer to something called the string test. It involves taking a piece of string, standing on one ...

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

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 ...

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

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

This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Where Do You Lose Weight First? Key takeaways: Different people lose weight in different places first.

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

The META-AF trial found fewer recurrences of atrial arrhythmias, a benefit unexplained by weight loss or glycemic control.

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

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 ...

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

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