The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

For those with pre-clinical obesity, health care should be about risk-reduction and prevention of health problems related to ...

Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States, announced a new program to prevent ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

hoping it leads to better obesity prevention and treatment strategies. “The commission’s report is a major step forward in recognizing obesity as a disease and not merely a risk factor.

Comment: The focus on how BMI should be used may have overshadowed an equally, if not more important, suggestion proposed in a new report The post BMI a distraction from real obesity issues appeared ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio show stronger links to colorectal cancer (CRC) than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

In the U.S., about 40% of adults have obesity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are ...