Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's height and ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of health experts. For over 75 years, obesity has been called a disease by the World Health Organization. But the label is hotly debated. Some say ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing that current methods fail to capture the ...

America’s obesity rates have constantly been rising. Over 40% of Americans are obese, and a whopping 73.6% of U.S. adults are ...

The U.S. faces a growing public health and economic challenge: obesity. More than 40 percent of American adults are obese, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion annually. And that’s ...