Obesity rates severely increased between 1990 and 2022 while rates of underweight people decreased in most countries, according to a new study, and the researchers believe access to more nutritious ...

Background We investigated the prevalence, temporal trends and associated factors of overweight and obesity among adults in ...

Female sex and higher education are significantly linked to the escalating prevalence of obesity and overweight in Africa, ...

Being overweight, obese or underweight could affect a woman's chances of becoming pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy—and male fertility is also affected by those factors, according to a new Dutch ...

When someone says you’re overweight or underweight, have you ever paused to ask, according to whom? For decades, the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the go-to tool for classifying weight. It is a ...

Most of us in Western medicine systems know which category of the body mass index, the “BMI,” our body matches. Our medical providers and the printouts after each office visit often highlight it for ...