A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Lizzo not only revealed that she achieved her 'weight release' goal — she also lost many BMI points and body fat percentage ...

Forty-four percent of personnel in the Canadian Armed Forces are considered overweight while 28 per cent are classified as ...

The focus on how BMI should be used may have overshadowed an equally, if not more important, matter proposed in a new report.

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 ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.

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

Two newer adiposity measures incorporating waist circumference predicted periodontitis better than body mass index, reported ...

India revises obesity guidelines after 15 years, emphasizing body fat distribution and health risks for Asian Indian ...