Adding waist size to BMI raises U.S. obesity rates from 42.9% to 68.6%, according to a major JAMA Network Open study.

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According to research from Mass General Brigham, applying updated obesity criteria from The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology ...

By applying this new framework to a test group of more than 300,000 patients, researchers found that the number of obese ...

Among patients with preclinical obesity, stronger grip strength was associated with reduced risk for progression to ...

A new definition of obesity endorsed by 76 health organizations could dramatically increase the number of Americans ...

New research shows that substantially more Americans would qualify as being obese using new diagnostic criteria released this ...

A healthy body fat percentage is between 14% and 31% for women and 10% to 25% for men. However, these are just averages and ...

A new study from the University of Waterloo suggested that Body Mass Index, long used as a standard measure of health, can be ...

The link between sleep, the state of our gut, and increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease may surprise you As dementia rates ...