A new study finds that three quarters of American adults and half of adolescents are too heavy. That's making more of us sick and creating enormous health care costs.

Major heart health risk factors like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure remain on the rise in the United States, ...

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

A fat activist explains why she objects to the medicalization of larger bodies and the idea that obesity is a disease.

Understanding the definition of obesity: experts examine the limitations of body-mass index (BMI) and propose alternative ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

said the rate of adult obesity in Britain is rising by one per cent of the population a year. Doctors say that being obese when you are 40 knocks up to seven years off your life. Obese people who ...

The commercialisation of junk food, increase in inactive lifestyles with prolonged sitting, and high stress environments, ...

A MAP has revealed England's fattest towns with the highest obesity rates ... people who are very muscular can have a high BMI without too much fat. You can use the NHS BMI healthy weight ...