Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell ... said Justin Ryder, a pediatric obesity researcher and professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine ...

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

an obesity medicine physician and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, previously told Business Insider. Here's why BMI is a bogus way to evaluate your health ...

Discover how pre-pregnancy exposure to air pollution can elevate childhood obesity risk and the significance of reducing it.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

Your child may be overweight if their BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentiles for their age. They may be obese if their score is within the 95th percentile or over. Children who are ...