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

A front-of-package food label would be a great educational tool. The Trump administration should keep it.

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

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

A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

Maps show the U.S. states with the healthiest diets, based on fruit and vegetables, alcohol, food insecurity, and diseases.

Bill Cassidy said in a statement. “It will help us to better understand obesity and that will, in turn, inform policy making in Washington, D.C.” Pennington, a campus of LSU, has been a ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how ... and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore ...