Paternal obesity was associated with rapid BMI growth trajectories among offspring, especially in the presence of maternal obesity.

The unintended use of the BMI to classify a person’s weight status came in 1995, after the World Health Organisation ... stigma that many experience in healthcare settings.

where healthcare systems have access to fewer resources. The resolution, adopted on Saturday during the 78th WHA, tasks the World Health Organization's (WHO) director general with developing a 10 ...

Novo Nordisk’s campaign, which aims to speak ‘without filters’ by declaring obesity a disease, has been strongly criticized on social media: ‘It’s indecent’ ...

In 2019, there were 970 million people globally with mental problems, or one in every eight individuals according to the World Health Organization (WHO ... discrimination, healthcare accessibility and ...

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A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after ...

Cataracts are not something to be feared, they are treatable, and the earlier they are detected and managed, the better your ...

In general, people are considered overweight if their BMI is over 25. If their BMI is over 30, they have obesity. But BMI is not a perfect measurement of overall health, because it doesn't ...