Indian doctors have introduced new guidelines to address the growing obesity crisis, categorising it into two stages and ...

A weight loss doctor has warned that forcing children to finish everything on their plate could lead to overeating habits and ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...

Raisins are packed with nutrients and offer many health benefits. A dietitian explores all of the possible ways they can ...

A new approach to diagnosing obesity aims to reduce reliance on BMI, incorporating waist circumference and health evidence ...

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