BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Ozempic is a brand name semaglutide, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It’s also used as an off-label use for weight loss. Wegovy is another brand name with the same a ...

More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

BMI is an outdated measure of health, say experts – there’s a raft of new checks that could give a clue to your current ...

The solution?: Lose weight. But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according to the BMI scale doesn't mean a person ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

BMI has traditionally been used to measure health but can be misleading, particularly for athletes. A recent study suggests VO2 max, which measures oxygen absorption and cardiovascular fitness, is ...

Ozempic and Other Weight Loss Drugs Could Shrink Medical Bills, Too The experts aren’t calling for doctors to completely abandon BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, but rather for it to be ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...