In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity may be a serious health risk for children with cancer, according to a study by Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital ...