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

Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

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

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

Patients in the overweight program have a one-time medical visit with a Form Health American Board of Obesity Medicine physician to go over medical history and comorbidities. They then meet with a ...