Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States, announced a new program to prevent ...

“These findings suggest that BMI and obesity prevalence in the U.S. decreased in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade,” the authors write. “The most notable decrease was in the South, which ...

Donald Trump and his advisers are about to launch a consequential battle against unhealthy food producers and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FDA has designed five different types of labels, each presenting the same information but with different specifications based on the size of the packaging.

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Over her three-decade career, weight management physician Dr. Sarah Ro has seen hundreds of patients. Many of them are on ...

After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover to 2019 levels this year ...

People often let chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes go for a long time without treatment. Here’s why you should address them before symptoms begin.