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Then we have Singapore. Apparently, 11.6 per cent of our population are overweight. We are tied in third place with Thailand.

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Exploring how the spiritual Wade in the Water resonated through the centuries, from slavery and the Underground Railroad to civil rights and Rhythm and Blues.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

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

Discover how a simple metabolic marker, the TyG index, combined with obesity measures, can help predict and manage hypertension risk in American adults ... such as body mass index (BMI), waist ...