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

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

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Police officers must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 28 to be considered for promotion, says Inspector-General of ...

Habits like getting adequate exercise, nutrition, and sleep can have profoundly positive effects on overall health whether ...

Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and ...