A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Gateshead Council's 10-year ban on new hot food takeaways has little effect on childhood obesity.

Knowsley has the highest proportion of obese and overweight 10 and 11 year olds in England, according to the NHS.

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

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