A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

Over her three-decade career, weight management physician Dr. Sarah Ro has seen hundreds of patients. Many of them are on ...

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

By narrowing their research to overweight and obese individuals, Roswell Park researchers found that metformin might offer ...

Racial discrimination, bullying, sexism and other forms of discrimination have also been shown to increase the risk for ...

This was independent of other risk factors, such as whether the person smoked or their body mass index (BMI). Dr Lucas Carr ... at University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center.

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...