Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...
Novo Nordisk said on Friday a late-stage trial with a high-dose version of its weight loss drug semaglutide helped overweight ...
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...
A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
Was actor Jake Gyllenhaal overweight when he filmed Road House? Should Kansas City Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce be ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.