The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded ...

Now, a global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, which means the days of relying solely on body mass index to reveal if you ...

There is strong evidence that visceral fat is the most harmful, particularly excess fat that manifests as an expanding ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

BMI provides only a single value; genetic predisposition & lifestyle factors also largely contribute to obesity in humans ...

It also contributes to oxidative stress in the atria – the heart’s upper chambers – altering their size ... While our mouse model would capture the effects of obesity in the body as a whole, our cell ...

The new recommended measurements of clinical obesity require more than body mass index ... by dysfunction of other organs including kidneys, upper airways, metabolic organs, nervous, urinary ...