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The obesity diagnosis has always been controversial. Now, a new clinical definition is raising even more questions.

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...

We all know that being overweight is bad for your health. Carrying excess fat is a risk factor for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, a range of cancers and an increased chance of an early death. The ...

Two recent documents—one from the FDA, the other from a commission organized by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology—indicate ...

On World Obesity Day, THE WEEK speaks to Dr Nanda Rajaneesh, General and Laproscopic Surgeon, Apollo Spectra Hospital, ...

Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published ...

Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 million young people with excess weight, researchers ...

Both studies estimated that India’s number of overweight and obese people will keep increasing till 2050. What may be the ...