A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

President Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person’s sex assigned at ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

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

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

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

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a ...

Definitions can play an important role in legislation. Defining words or phrases is done to provide the reader of the ...