Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Being overweight is defined as having more body fat than is ideal for good health. Body mass index (BMI) is a measuring tool to define whether a person is in ...

Use this chart to estimate your obesity level based on your weight and height. An example is shown for an individual who weighs 80 kg (176 lbs) and stands 1.75 meters (175 cm or 69 inches) tall. Those ...

The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.

In countless reports and studies, obesity is often reduced to just a number: 42% of adults in the U.S. have obesity, ...

Policymakers should focus on both obesity prevention and better access to treatment for those already living with obesity.

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 ...

One third of Alabama children are either overweight or obese, placing them on the top of obesity charts nationally. Among racial and ethnic populations such as African American and Hispanic, obesity ...