Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

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

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

Novo Nordisk said on Friday a late-stage trial with a high-dose version of its weight loss drug semaglutide helped overweight ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

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

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

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

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...