A Canadian woman who identifies as an “unapologetically fat intersectional feminist” won her bid to bring an obstetrician to ...

WHILE curvy or voluptuous are seen as compliments, no woman EVER wants to be described as “round”. But scientists now suggest ...

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were classified as being clinically overweight or obese ...

Accompanying these findings is a call for refined treatment strategies that have potential to better outcomes among patients ...

Managing chronic conditions like diabetes and high cholesterol is crucial for preventing stroke. Regular body mass index (BMI) assessments, limiting screen time to no more than four hours per day, and ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and body fat provides key insights into strength and longevity that the scale ...

A South Korean man who ate to the point of obesity in an attempt to dodge the army has avoided prison after he pledged to take up his mandatory military service. The man, who was not publicly ...

Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by ...

The preliminary data open the door to an alternative approach to invasive monitoring in heart failure patients.

In the sample of children in Philadelphia, the unadjusted pre-tax mean zBMI was 0.46, and 16% had a BMI in the 95th ...

Primary school girls between the ages of 4 and 11 with a body mass index (BMI) considered overweight or obese are ... among reception year children with at least one musculoskeletal consultation, 46% ...