A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

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

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

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

The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

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

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health ...

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

"On the other hand, a blanket definition of obesity as a disease can result in overdiagnosis and unwarranted use of medications and surgical procedures, with potential harm to the individual and ...