Maintaining a healthy weight is an essential part of overall well-being. But while most health conversations revolve around ...

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

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

The healthy weight range is based on a measurement known as the body mass index (BMI). This can be determined if you know your weight and your height. The Body Mass Index (or BMI) is a way of ...

rather than simply calculating BMI. This new definition, published January 14 in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, could shift the paradigm of clinical care for the 890 million ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...