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

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

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain says any officers whose BMI reading is above 28 could lose out on promotion.

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

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

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

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...

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

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