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

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr.

China is aiming to beef up physical education in schools, making it core to the curriculum rather than a secondary subject, ...

The commission recommends a shift away from relying solely on BMI to more accurately define obesity as a disease.

Author and registered dietician nutritionist Dawn Jackson Blatner joins John Williams to talk about BMI guidelines and obesity, and what you can eat for better sleep. Dawn also ...

Future risk prediction models could incorporate measures of obesity to improve stratification among patients with Barrett’s ...

Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

The team categorized pediatric obesity treatment response, based on changes in body mass index standard deviation score, as ...

Newer research highlights the shortcomings of using BMI alone to accurately diagnose obesity, especially for Indians.

It’s one thing for the scientific community to propose a fundamental change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. But it’s another for that proposal to be adopted by regulators, especially when ...

Traditionally BMI was used to define obesity, but a team of doctors redefined obesity based on the Indian population.