A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

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

One of the world’s largest studies of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs highlighted their impact on the brain, pointing to benefits from addiction to schizophrenia.

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of King’s College London.

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said. Ten years ago Gateshead Council used all the planning powers available at a local level to introduce a blanket ban on any new hot food takeaways in the area,

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

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.

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

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

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on Clinical Obesity says in a new paper in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya/ Pexels The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.