Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

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Britain is turning sadness into sickness. More than four in five GPs believe that the ups and downs of normal life are being ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

Laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the first Trump administration in 2020 labeled “divisive concepts” ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

All of this is a bad omen for Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. As part of his agenda ...

Gov. Mike Braun's new executive order is aimed at making sure the state's pro-life laws are faithfully executed by the ...