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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.

Experts have started thinking more broadly about what puts a person at risk for heart disease, still the leading killer in the U.S.

For at least the last half century, obesity has been one the rise around the world, contributing to what many officials consider a public health crisis. While there remains some controversy about how ...

The study highlights BMI's role in mediating genetic risk for diseases, suggesting a complex relationship with conditions ...

Calculator - get your body fat percentage. Woolcott OO, Seuring T. Temporal trends in obesity defined by the relative fat mass (RFM) index among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020: A ...

Gregg Wallace has revealed he has just 17% body fat after a five-stone weight loss. The MasterChef co-host has been open ...

Long-lasting changes to the cells’ epigenome are linked to a decline in their function. Even after drastic weight loss, the ...

A new study has found a link between the rollout of high-speed internet services and a rise in obesity rates in the country.

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In a little over two decades, almost 260 million people in the United States are predicted to have overweight or obesity, ...