Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

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

People recovering from eating disorders say the focus on weight and BMI can be triggering and counterproductive.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

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

Below is a collection of 10 charts that tell the story of market and economic resiliency in 2024 — with all eyes set on 2025. It was a record-setting year on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 ...

Objective Limited research has assessed the association between patterns of body mass index (BMI) change across adulthood and mortality. We aimed to identify groups of individuals who followed ...

Meghan McCain detailed the “scare” of finding a lump in her breast this year and encouraged women to get their mammograms in a candid Instagram post she shared Monday. “I had to get a mass ...

So let's remind ourselves of some of the big moments of the year, in chart form. We begin with the big economic picture. Growth. This time last year, the UK was (unbeknownst to us at the time ...

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter were among the stars who scored platinum-selling albums in 2024 From Taylor Swift to Charli XCX, women had a record-breaking year on the British charts ...