Researchers have redefined obesity, emphasizing the impact of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function rather than ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

Global health experts suggested that doctors should consider the overall health of patients with excess fat, rather than just ...

Euroconsumers highlights the lack of common EU standards concerning the quality of refurbished products and the framework ...

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A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other ...

Asserting that now trust between India and China needs a new definition, Army Chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi said on Monday that ...

Academics have suggested that a body mass index (BMI) score is not “nuanced” enough to measure obesity and more assessments ...

Obesity has always been classified as a health risk, but for some it is an illness that needs to be correctly identified ...