Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

A weight loss doctor has warned that forcing children to finish everything on their plate could lead to overeating habits and ...

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

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

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

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

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

The way obesity is currently diagnosed needs to be changed, according to an international group of experts.The Commission on Clinical Obesity says body mass ind ...

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

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