New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and ...

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

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...