Prepregnancy maternal underweight is associated with lower BMI in infants conceived via ART, with sex-specific elevations in ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

Weight loss jabs, including now household names Wegovy and Ozempic, could cause permanent vision loss, health officials have ...

Pharmac has taken the first steps towards funding weight loss drug Wegovy after an advisory panel provisionally recommended ...

Obesity contributes to 86 per cent of long-term health conditions, claim the authors of a new paper investigating the link ...

This story discusses eating disorders. If you or someone you know is at risk for an eating disorder, the National Eating ...

Researchers have quantified the role of obesity in common long-term conditions, showing for the first time the effect of ...

Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk, particularly among people who are not classified as ...

A recent poll highlights how the pursuit of weight loss has quietly become a costly, long-term financial burden for many ...

Lily, 21, from Retford has been told she is too heavy for surgery - even though her breasts weigh five stone alone ...

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