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

A new model utilizing simple anthropometric measurements provided a viable alternative to bioimpedance for assessing body fat ...

Research on a cohort of Chinese mothers and their children has found exposure to elevated levels of particulate matter in the ...

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

As weight-loss drugs like Ozempic become normalized solutions to over-eating habits, researchers at Pennington Biomedical ...

Although a comparable proportion of Black and non-Black patients discussed surgical weight loss with their provider (9.5% vs ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

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

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

Intermittent fasting is an effective method for weight loss and enhances cardiovascular health in individuals with obesity. A ...