Body Mass Index (BMI) can be a screening tool, but obesity must be confirmed by measuring body fat, said health experts on Saturday, even as India revamped its obesity guidelines after 15 years.

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

Body weight cycling, also known as “yo-yo dieting,” is associated with a 25%-36% increased risk for diabetic kidney disease ...

Being overweight and obese, places increased pressure on your feet, ankles and lower limbs, which makes you more likely to experience arthritis, foot pain and skin problems on the feet ...

Colorado State University seeks female volunteers aged 25-65 with BMIs under 30 for a gut health study involving a synbiotic product.

Patients with and without obesity experienced significant pain reductions and improved functioning following telerehabilitation for chronic musculoskeletal pain.

There is an eternal chicken-or-egg debate over obesity and Type 2 diabetes—science still can’t quite pin down which causes ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in ...

Researchers have found in a new study that Individuals with better lung function, as measured by forced vital capacity (FVC), ...

New research reveals the danger of ‘fatty muscles’, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself against this hard-to ...

While ML models are powerful tools for predicting diabetes, their lack of interpretability presents a major challenge for ...

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...