Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, ...

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

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

Hims & Hers, a tele-health start-up, aims to stand apart from dozens of Super Bowl commercials hawking snacks with a spot ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

People with diabetes and obesity are at higher risk for severe respiratory illness caused by viruses, including serious ...

China is aiming to beef up physical education in schools, making it core to the curriculum rather than a secondary subject, ...

Helping kids with obesity drop pounds can have a huge impact on their future health.When these children and teens los ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Over-availability of food: Since cats do not need to hunt to eat when they are confined to the house, they sometimes eat just ...