Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.

Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have identified the specific neurons in mice brains that tell them ...

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

Scientists mapped fat tissue differences in obese individuals, uncovering cell changes linked to metabolic disease risk and ...

Intermittent Fasting Is Effective for Weight Loss and Improves Cardiovascular Health in People With Obesity Problems Jan. 8, 2025 — Scientists have conducted a pioneering study on the benefits ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.

The study, published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry, looked into 48 people the medical journal ... have also been known to help tackle obesity. Last year, another study published in JAMA Psychiatry ...

Obesity is estimated to affect more than one billion people worldwide. In the US, about 40 percent of adults have obesity, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This can result in misdiagnosis, with negative consequences for people living with obesity. A secondary analysis of trends of prevalence, patterns, and predictors from 2005 to 2020 using the ...

Sharing her experience with GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Oprah reveals on the podcast, "One of the things that I realised the very first time I took a GLP-1 was that all these years, I thought that ...