Researchers have long known the brain plays a role in overeating and obesity, but a new study sheds light on just how ...

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The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.

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 ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction, and identifies environmental risk factors during ...

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

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

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

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

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...