Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...

Overweight scores continue from 25-30. And over 30 is obese. Quetelet merely used this early calculation as a descriptor. He did not make any medical proclamations. The Quetelet Index became ...

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

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

Obesity can put strain on the heart, resulting in an increased risk of conditions such as atrial fibrillation, or irregular ...

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

On the latest episode of her podcast, Oprah Winfrey opened up about how her opinion of “thin people” changed after she was able to lose weight herself with the help of weight loss medications.

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

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

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...

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

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