A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Women with higher levels of body fat sometimes struggle to conceive and can face greater health risks during pregnancy.

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

The urgent directive follows alarming findings by Lancet, the British medical journal, that projected a surge in overweight ...

Obesity and heart failure often go together, making treatment more complicated. Now, health experts have released new ...

The number of overweight and obese adults in India is expected to rise from 180 million in 2021 to an 449 million by 2050.

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

But it’s taking neither seriously. Despite the fact that more than 64% of people in the UK are either overweight or obese our ...

They pointed out that BMI can classify some people with a “normal” BMI, even when they have a high percentage of body fat. A ...

Obesity in India is a family problem, not an individual one, with sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets leading to weight ...

Obese workers are more likely to take more sick days than those of normal weight, according to a study by the Institute for ...