Are good health and obesity mutually exclusive? Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s starting to change — with ...

A major update to how obesity is defined could push U.S. obesity rates to nearly 70%, according to a large new study. The ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

The prevalence of obesity was 75.2% among adults in the U.S. when new criteria proposed by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission was used to diagnose the disease, researchers reported in a ...

Weight is an eternally-pressing topic, but conversations around GLP-1s and other weight loss drugs have brought it to the forefront even more. Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to ...

Millions of Americans long considered outside the obesity category may, in fact, face many of the same health risks.

Obesity in the United States is no longer a slow-moving crisis. A sweeping redefinition of what counts as unhealthy body fat ...

Kent County's first Childhood Obesity Surveillance Report reveals 40% of local children are overweight or obese.