THIS HAPPENED ON STATE HIGHWAY 33 NEAR COUNTRY CLUB ROAD. IT WAS JUST BEFORE 2:00 ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. OHP SAYS THAT ONE VEHICLE CROSSED OVER THE CENTER LINE, HIT ANOTHER CAR. ANOTHER PERSON DIED AT ...

Kushner helped craft the new definition of obesity as part of the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Special Commission. Instead of relying on a single number – BMI – doctors are calling for a ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” said Dr. David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University of ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health problems can go unnoticed,” commission member Dr. Robert Eckel, chair of ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health problems can go unnoticed,” commission member Dr. Robert Eckel, chair of ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of health experts. For over 75 years, obesity has been called a disease by the World Health Organization. But the label is hotly debated.

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international ...

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing that current methods fail to capture ...

The current definition of obesity, as set by the World Health Organization (WHO), is having excess body fat that poses a risk to health. The WHO recommends that healthcare workers assess whether ...

“For people who do have the clinical definition of obesity, recognising it as a disease does give it legitimacy that this is a health condition, and it needs appropriate funding and evidence ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is investigating a two-vehicle collision on US Highway 277 near NE Kleeman Road, just east of Elgin that occurred Saturday evening.