It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

Intermittent fasting is an effective method for weight loss and enhances cardiovascular health in individuals with obesity. A ...

A report by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission calls for a shift in obesity diagnosis, proposing a more ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

Doctors check a person's body mass index by dividing their weight in kilometres by the square of their height in metres. If ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.

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 ...