The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND, about nutrition and other ...

Research shows that people with a certain body shape face a higher risk of serious health problems compared to their ...

BMI over 30 is considered obese. But those having excess fat may not have a BMI 30, which shows under-diagnosis of people and ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

Can you carry extra pounds yet still be considered fit and healthy? It’s a question that has been posed by doctors for years.

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...

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