More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help ...

The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...

Can you carry extra pounds yet still be considered fit and healthy? It’s a question that has been posed by doctors for years.

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Being physically fit is more important than your body weight in lowering the risk of death and ...

A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain says any officers whose BMI reading is above 28 could lose out on promotion.

There may be a more effective way to define and diagnose obesity, according to a commission of scientists that proposed a ...

The increase in breast cancer rates among younger patients is occurring as the incidence of other early-onset cancers — ...