The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

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New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

Body weight cycling, also known as “yo-yo dieting,” is associated with a 25%-36% increased risk for diabetic kidney disease ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Many adolescents and young women gain weight in the years after breast reduction surgery—particularly those who were at a ...

New rules will make it harder to get weight loss jabs online, but what will happen to obese people desperate for help? Two ...