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

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on ... adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body ... physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore’s health ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

A front-of-package food label would be a great educational tool. The Trump administration should keep it.

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been tied in a large, national study to a drop in the risk of developing ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...

A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

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