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

Researchers hope that a better understanding of which genes contribute to excess weight could help with prevention starting ...

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.

That’s because your cells remember being obese and actively fight against your efforts to keep the weight off, according to a study published in Nature. “The body seems to retain an obesogenic ...

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 ...

Fat cells have a “memory” of obesity, which may help explain why it’s so difficult to maintain weight loss, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature.