An ad airing Super Bowl Sunday features “America’s deadliest epidemic,” obesity, and what can be done about it with the use ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

Over the past decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, now affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

In its current form, SNAP operates as a de facto subsidy program that props up some of the unhealthiest parts of the food ...