Children should not be denied help in treating eating disorders on the basis of their body mass index (BMI), the NHS says.

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A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised ...

A national study of Australian undergraduates suggests that spending more than 10 hours a week gaming is associated with ...

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it ...

A deep dive into the scientific shift toward multi-target obesity therapeutics and its implications for metabolic health and ...

Metabolic bariatric surgery is associated with improved outcomes in patients with psoriasis, according to a recent study.

Across all income levels, bariatric surgery resulted in better diabetes control than GLP-1s or similar medications, a study ...

It's well established that gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked. But what wasn't known, until a ...

Unlike BMI, which does not distinguish between fat and muscle mass, the waist-to-height ratio better reflects visceral fat -- ...