Indians face higher diabetes and heart risks at lower body mass index (BMI) levels than Western populations.

India’s obesity rates are predicted to rise substantially and by 2050, it is estimated that 17.4% of women and 12.1% of men ...

People classed as “overweight” according to BMI can be perfectly healthy. But there are better measures of fat, and physicians are finally using them ...

In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold ...

People with obesity are at 70 percent higher risk of serious infections, with one in ten infectious disease deaths globally ...

A young mother-of-one who contracted sepsis because the weight of her bust tore her skin has shared her frustration at being ...

South Asian adults in the U.S. report doing many of the right things for heart health, yet they show significantly higher rates of prediabetes, diabetes and hypertension than white and Chinese adults, ...

GLP-1 weight loss drugs are taking over Super Bowl ads, signaling a major shift in how obesity meds are marketed, normalized ...

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New research links consumption of ultraprocessed foods to earlier death in cancer survivors — but caveats abound.

A woman whose 36 NN breasts are so heavy they led to sepsis claims she was refused reduction surgery on the NHS because she ...

In 2024, I was working a job I hated and living in a nightmare house share. The combination of frustration and stress had ...