A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs says that drugs like Ozempic can do plenty more than just help with weight loss ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

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

Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does not factor in body fat levels. The prevalent method is so flawed that it ...

Psychologist and behavior change expert Professor Thomas Webb and a team of researchers has developed a health pack to help owners manage their dogs’ weight. Dog obesity is on the rise in the UK, with ...

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 ...

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a ...

Professor Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow and a co-author of the Commission, said: “This new paper aims to move conversations forward on how best to ...

Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University of Washington ... Dr. Robert Kushner from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine acknowledged that redefining obesity will take time ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University ... obesity will take time, acknowledged Dr. Robert Kushner, an obesity expert at the ...