The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in ...

Body mass index (BMI) alone may not be enough to measure someone's risk of cardiometabolic disease, according to researchers ...

Increased grip strength correlates with lower obesity-related disease risk, suggesting muscle power as a key factor in ...

A new global analysis has found that hidden fat—particularly the kind that builds up deep inside and around your organs and ...

A new study published in The Journal of Turkish Family Physician provides evidence that breast size and marital status may be ...

At 60 years, I weigh 70 kilograms. Kindly let me know how to put on weight.Ngozi (by SMS)It would have been good if you also sent me your height. This would have been useful to calculate your BMI ...

A new study led by researchers at McMaster University reveals that hidden fat deep inside the abdomen and liver may quietly damage arteries, even in people who appear healthy.

The proposed new definition of obesity incorporates body mass index (BMI) with other measurements like waist circumference.

By applying this new framework to a test group of more than 300,000 patients, researchers found that the number of obese ...

New research shows that substantially more Americans would qualify as being obese using new diagnostic criteria released this ...

BMI is not an accurate way to measure body weight or health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat ...

Carrying too much fat in the body, known as adiposity, is a well-known cause of serious health problems like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease. But measuring a person’s true ...