Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient ...

Unlike gonorrhea or low testosterone, touch starvation can’t be diagnosed with a blood draw, urine test, or brain scan. The ...

Under the new definition, a person is classified as obese if they have a high BMI plus an elevated reading from one of these ...

The prevalence of obesity in the United States could rise sharply under a definition of obesity released earlier this year by ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham examined a new way to define obesity that goes beyond BMI by also considering how body fat is distributed. Obesity rates in the United States may increase dramatica ...

Most people over 50 were already adults when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1992 and transformed the ...