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Nearly half of young Korean men are now classified as obese based on the body mass index, and roughly one in three has ...

Inactive patients were at a higher risk for inactivity-related comorbid conditions, including obesity and diabetes, as well as early death.

Active individuals are generally at a lower risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and obesity all of which are linked to physical inactivity. The Exercise is Medicine initiative ...

Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics say, after a new study suggested having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass index (BMI ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

People are being "overdiagnosed" with obesity because the body mass index (BMI) is not "nuanced" enough, leading medics have warned. A commission of more than 50 international experts said solely ...

The National Health Service (NHS) staffers in the UK have been told not to call fat people "obese" in guidance issued by the medicine watchdog, according to a report in The Telegraph. The National ...