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

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. People with pre-clinical obesity are at risk for ...

AS a nation, we guzzle 15BILLION litres of fizzy drinks every year. But they are to blame for one in ten new cases of type 2 ...

"This tells us that it’s much more important, all things considered, to focus on the fitness aspect” of health and longevity, ...

The U.S. government named 15 drugs that will be subject to the second round of price negotiations by Medicare, including ...

A new study reveals that junk food and drug use are hindering life expectancy gains in the U.S., despite technological ...

Alcohol is the third-leading cause of cancer in the U.S., after tobacco and obesity. While research has shown a ... at the ...