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

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 ...

Nearly four in ten (37 per cent) parents say the typically make their children eat everything in front of them.

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...

So let's remind ourselves of some of the big moments of the year, in chart form. We begin with the big economic picture. Growth. This time last year, the UK was (unbeknownst to us at the time ...

Asian and Hispanic individuals had significantly lower odds of utilizing obesity-management medications compared with White individuals. (HealthDay News) — Racial and ethnic disparities are ...

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have been competing in the obesity market for the past year, making it an opportune time to review the benefits of the two most prominent obesity medications.

ADHD symptoms were directly associated with later obesity from age seven in girls and from age 11 in boys in the UK, while obesity did not affect ADHD symptoms ...