A new obesity framework reveals hidden health risks in people with normal BMI and urges a shift in diagnosis from ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

Overweight and obese people under 25 increased from 198 million to 493 million between 1990 and 2021. That number is forecast to reach 746 million by 2050. While GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and ...