Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...

A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

The Lancet obesity framework aims to improve risk assessment but risks delaying treatment and deepening health inequities, according to recent evaluations.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...

Current body mass index (BMI) classification may overestimate the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among ...

The reclassification this summer by the American Medical Association of obesity as “a disease state” effectively declared that one-third of all Americans has a medical condition requiring treatment.

Childhood obesity increases cardiometabolic risk even in “healthy” cases. Early treatment may reduce long-term disease burden. Find out more.