Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is often an indicator to diagnose obesity. Combating obesity is paramount to overall health. According to The National Health Institute, 1 in 3 adults are considered ...

If you’ve been craving avocados, you’re not just fueling your body with healthy fats—you might also be supporting your baby’s ...

If you’ve been craving avocados, you’re not just fueling your body with healthy fats—you might also be supporting your baby’s ...

This May, take action, raise your voice, and help change the conversation around mental health! Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been a driving force in addressing the challenges faced by ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

Experts warn that cuts to fertility and maternal health programs threaten care access and could deepen reproductive health ...

Patients with obesity often report being shamed and stigmatized in medical settings. How can physicians address weight sensitively?

Programmes to build a more representative US health-care workforce are under attack, despite the long-standing under-representation of health-care providers from racially and ethnically minoritised ...

Among the 2,225 adults in the study, all under 60 years of age, 39.7% had obesity as defined only by higher BMI, while 39.1% had confirmed excess adiposity when using diagnostic criteria recently laid ...

Nearly all U.S. adults with obesity as diagnosed by BMI also have an elevated waist circumference or excess body fat, ...