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

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Get a load of this — you may be obese after all! About 40% of US adults — more than 100 million Americans — are considered ...

Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.

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

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