Hers shares information about the average weight for women in the U.S., what women believe the ideal weight is, and the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine advocacy is outside the mainstream. His previous statements on abortion could alienate Republicans. But a new poll finds that not all of his controversial health ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

Popular GLP-1 medications approved for weight loss, diabetes, and heart disease may have untapped potential to reduce the ...

The medications, manufactured by Novo Nordisk and used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, were used by nearly 2.3 million enrollees during that period. Wegovy has also been approved to treat ...

New guidelines are changing how obesity is diagnosed. One change is establishing a “pre-clinical” category, which could help with providing coverage for medications and surgical procedures ...

Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does not factor in body fat levels. The prevalent method is so flawed that it ...

The global obesity epidemic has significantly impacted male fertility, with obese men often showing reduced sperm concentration, altered testicular morphology, and impaired spermatogenesis.

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

This important study presents genome-wide high-resolution chromatin-based 3D genomic interaction maps for over 50 diverse human cell types and integrates these data with pediatric obesity GWAS. The ...

What approaches are effective and acceptable in identifying overweight, obesity and central adiposity in children, young people and adults from ethnic minority backgrounds? [2025] For a short ...