A panel of health experts looking at obesity announced that the definition of the condition should be split into two ...

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

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

Novo Nordisk said on Friday a late-stage trial with a high-dose version of its weight loss drug semaglutide helped overweight ...

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

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

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

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Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...