A positive response to treatment for pediatric obesity has enduring health benefits into young adulthood, according to a study.

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Children’s eating habits are strongly influenced by their parents' weight status, with those having overweight or obese ...

In this cohort of adults in the United Kingdom (UK), those with a thinner or plumper body size in childhood had an increased ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

A significant percentage of adolescents in the United States are living with hyperuricemia, a condition that is associated with obesity and risks for cardiometabolic complications, according to study ...

Interesting health quote by Benjamin Franklin on how an individual's eating habits can have serious implications on health ...

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Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define adult obesity as a BMI of 30 or greater and overweight as a ...

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.