A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

We've slapped a tax on sugary drinks, watched prices rise, and people bought less soda—but their waistlines didn’t seem to ...

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

Findings indicate a 12.8% 10-year diabetes risk, driven by fasting plasma glucose, age, sex, and BMI, highlighting the need ...

Achieving obesity remission reduced children’s and teens’ risk for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia ...

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

“That’s why,” says Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, professor of medicine, Metabolic Research Group, AIIMS, “obesity has to be ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) excise taxes were associated with reduced mean body mass index (BMI) among adults in demographic subgroups, including in young adults who consumed the most SSBs, and in ...