Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

This week, Mad in America examines three studies around mental health diagnosis, psychotropic drug use, obesity, and diabetes ...

Obesity is now linked to at least 13 types of cancer, making it one of the most preventable cancer risk factors in the United States.

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

The 2013 declaration of obesity as a chronic disease and the 2021 approval of semaglutide are associated with increased use ...

Are good health and obesity mutually exclusive? Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s starting to change — with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers calculated that a BMI cutoff of 33.7 kg/m 2 should be used to diagnose obesity in male athletes.

India faces rising severe obesity. Experts discuss how GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 medications, combined with lifestyle and ...

Body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, may be woefully inadequate. May 2, 2010— -- The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The proportion of CRC cases attributable to high BMI were “substantially lower” than those attributable to ...