BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

As obesity experts say more than 15 million Birtons are being wrongly labelled overweight and propose a radical overhaul of ...

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

India has experienced a doubling of obesity prevalence over the past two decades, with abdominal obesity becoming ...

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

GPs should use their ‘clinical judgement’ to decide when a child’s obesity has become a safeguarding concern, according to ...

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

Evidence for the positive effects of intermittent fasting continues to mount: a new study shows that for people with obesity, ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

Being overweight as a child could increase the risk of dementia in old age, a study by Oxford University suggests ...