The writer Kevin Schlittenhardt lost 40 pounds with a combination of intermittent fasting, weight training, and light cardio, gaining back his health and self-confidence along the way. Now he wonders ...

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New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

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An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy ... used Quetelet's formula to build actuarial tables based on height and weight, and used ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded. Using body-mass ...

A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - said that a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how obesity is diagnosed ...

Surgery has reportedly never been on the table for Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews, who's been dealing with a lingering upper-body injury since the beginning of November. The 27-year ...

We classified subjects into weight change profiles according to baseline body mass index (BMI) categories and weight change ... BMI and lung function (see online supplementary table S2). Table 1 shows ...

Multiple exposure assessments were used to derive trajectories in body mass index (BMI) across adulthood ... and with the highest education decreased across TR1–TR6 (table 1). Compared with other ...