When it comes to assessing weight and health, both BMI and height weight charts have their advantages. BMI is convenient and ...

Fields, who is based in Houston, told Newsweek: "According to the BMI chart, my doctor labeled me as 'overweight' and borderline 'obese.' The doctor barely looked at me before making that assessment.

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless ...

A new study says that married men may have triple the risk of obesity, compared to unmarried men, and that marriage seems to increase the likelihood of being overweight in both sexes – by 62% in men ...

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. Published in Obesity and Endocrinology, ...

The largest number of adults predicted to be overweight and obese by 2025 are expected to be in China (627m), India (450m) ...

Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 million young people with excess weight, researchers ...

Obesity – statistically defined as a body mass index (BMI) over 30 in adults – and overweight, classified as a BMI over 25, are associated with an increased risk of numerous diseases ...

In high-income countries, for example, about 7 per cent of men born in the 1960s were obese by the age of 25. That share rose ...

The analysis, released on World Obesity Day, utilized the 2021 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study to estimate current and future overweight and obesity levels in 204 ...