New criteria come amid discussion of access to weight loss drugs One billion children and adults have obesity.1 Getting the diagnosis of obesity right matters for people and for healthcare systems, ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

We all know that being overweight is bad for your health. Carrying excess fat is a risk factor for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, a range of cancers and an increased chance of an early death. The ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

Body Roundness Index is a new metric which helps in estimating body fat and assessing risk of developing health conditions Read on to know more about it ...

For the study, researchers tracked BMI rates in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021 to capture current trends, ...

Childhood obesity is on the rise, with alarming projections showing one in six children and adolescents could be obese by ...

Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while they're babies and toddlers ...

Obesity is a growing global health concern, with projections indicating that more than half of the world’s population will be ...

Objective This study aimed to identify body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories from birth to 24 months of age and examine ...

Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...

Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...