An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

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

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. People with pre-clinical obesity are at risk for ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...

Then, maybe spend more time walking and otherwise working out than worrying about weight, said John Thyfault, a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center who studies obesity ...

Analysis of drugs such as Ozempic finds a lower health risk for 42 conditions but a higher rate of disorders such as arthritis ...

Weight-loss jabs could reduce your risk of drug abuse, seizures and pneumonia, as well as heart attacks and strokes, ...

"This tells us that it’s much more important, all things considered, to focus on the fitness aspect” of health and longevity, ...