The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

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

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

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

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded. Using body-mass ...

Novo Nordisk said a higher dose of its drug Wegovy led to greater weight loss in patients during a late-stage trial, but the ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

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