World medical experts say there is a better way to look at body weight than BMI. Trump nominee Kash Patel touches parents’ ...

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

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in ...

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...