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

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

Calling people obese is medically "flawed" - and the definition should be split into two, a report from global experts says.

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

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

A new generation of weight loss drugs has helped some people lose significant amounts of weight and improve their health.

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

A new study from obesity researcher Martin Binks reveals that college students and older adults gain holiday weight just in different ways.

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

In a new report, global health experts are urging that we redefine the measurements used to determine whether someone is ...

But, while generally useful, BMI can fail to identify some people who are unhealthy due to their excess weight, and ...