The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

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

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

Experts suggest redefining obesity diagnosis with BMI, waist size, and health factors to improve treatment accuracy.

For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates have dropped in the United States. A recent study by the CDC showed that ...

The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...