Are good health and obesity mutually exclusive? Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s starting to change — with ...

Body mass index (BMI) has long been a common tool for estimating a person's relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It's easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used ...

There are few diagnostic terms in medicine more stigmatized than “obesity,” which affects 41.9% of U.S. adults over 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

The US has a higher obesity burden than most countries, with 40% of adults living with obesity, leading to significant public health initiatives. The US leads in early-stage obesity drug ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply ...

From this metric, your physician can diagnose whether you are under or average weight, or whether you have obesity. The thing is: BMI is a metric that was not designed to diagnose someone with a ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be ...

According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

The way we think about obesity is changing. A new definition and diagnostic framework for obesity has been put forward in a commission published by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, recognizing ...