Specifically, a child is three to four times more likely to become an obese adult if their mom was obese, researchers ...

Currently, there are six FDA approved weight loss medications. They include three GLP-1 receptor agonists -- liraglutide ...

A review and analysis of reams of earlier research found that being out of shape doubled or tripled the risk of dying ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

Dementia is rapidly becoming one of Kenya's most pressing health challenges, yet stigma, misinformation, and a lack of awareness continue to hinder early diagnosis and care.

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many ...

Body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to evaluate a person ... combined with muscle wasting, can have serious health consequences. This tissue transformation promotes chronic low-grade ...

A greater intake of sugar-sweetened beverages was tied to a higher risk for oral cavity cancer, or OCC, in women, a ...

Researchers have found that waist circumference, which measures fat around the abdomen, is a better indicator of cancer risk ...

A group of Swedish researchers came to this conclusion after analysing almost 340,000 patient health records and their waist circumference and body-mass-index (BMI) over more than a decade.

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later ...

The two met, fittingly, in a cycling class. Pacheco—a Salt Lake City native who had a career as a dancer and choreographer in ...