Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

A WOMAN who’s lost a staggering four stone on weight loss injections has hit back at trolls who have slammed her for ...

The prevalence of obesity and overweight is extraordinarily high. Unsurprisingly, deaths related to obesity are on the rise, ...

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Yair Zloof and colleagues1 show that obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was ...

Researchers have found that cesarean deliveries may affect maternal mental health to a great extent, as almost 1 in 11 women ...

A MUM-OF-TWO who flew out to Turkey for a weight-loss operation bled to death after the surgery went wrong, an inquest heard.

“To the best of our knowledge, our study is one of the first large-scale studies to confirm that a combination ... The majority of this group was younger and female, had a lower body mass index (BMI), ...

where mortality and health risks were highest at both the low and high ends of the BMI scale. The BMI is a screening tool that measures the ratio of one’s height to one’s weight to estimate ...

where mortality and health risks were highest at both the low and high ends of the BMI scale. The body mass index is a screening tool that measures the ratio of one's height to one's weight to ...

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