Comprehensive study exposes critical health risks of obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while offering ...

David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum, explains how we can maintain a healthy weight and why, when it comes to ...

Many adolescents and young women gain weight in the years after breast reduction surgery – particularly those who were at a healthy body mass index (BMI) before surgery, reports a paper in the ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A global commission presents a nuanced approach to defining clinical obesity as a chronic illness resulting from the effect of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function.

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

The commission recommends a shift away from relying solely on BMI to more accurately define obesity as a disease.

Effective treatment of childhood obesity significantly lowers long-term health risks, including type 2 diabetes and ...