Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

Wegovy is a GLP-1 agonist containing semaglutide, the same active ingredient as Ozempic. While both medications share this ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...

Annual exams are more crucial than ever as the prevalence of chronic diseases in the United States continues to climb.

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

Racial discrimination, bullying, sexism and other forms of discrimination have also been shown to increase the risk for ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living with obesity worldwide.

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the commonly referenced body max index (BMI) and instead approaching the condition ...