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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Health and social care professionals should follow our general guidelines for people delivering care: See also the section on classifying overweight, obesity and central adiposity in adults. For a ...

Health and social care professionals should follow our general guidelines for people delivering care: NICE's technology appraisal guidance on tirzepatide for managing overweight and obesity (TA1026, ...

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