A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Novo Nordisk shares were 9.5% higher after the pharmaceutical giant said an experimental weight-loss shot showed patients ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

Over-availability of food: Since cats do not need to hunt to eat when they are confined to the house, they sometimes eat just ...

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...