Health conditions such as anorexia can lead to extreme weight loss and starvation. Learn how losing too much weight can affect the body and what treatment can look like.

Low body weight in young women has been linked to a range of health concerns, including disrupted menstrual cycles, ...

Dealing with obesity requires more than skipping desserts and spending hours at the gym. For many people, biology, hormones, ...

In general, people are considered to be at a healthy weight if their BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9. A BMI of 25 or more is ...

Americans may now be classified as obese, according to a new study authored by Harvard Medical School researchers ...

The obesity rate in the U.S. has seen a marked decline over the last three years, as the share of Americans who report using ...

The group of digestive tract (or gastrointestinal) cancers, which encompasses tumours of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, ...

New research reveals that one in five people with normal BMIs have hidden abdominal obesity, facing 29% higher blood pressure ...

The RunStar 8E SmartScan Pro Body Fat Scale not only tracks over 21 body composition stats, but can also measure the ...

BMI is a measure of body weight relative to height. The goal for most people is to have a BMI that’s over 18 and under 25.

New research continues to show that many people meet the criteria for obesity and associated health problems, even if their ...

A new study on the worldwide prevalence of ‘abdominal obesity’ tied belly fat in ‘normal’ weight people to hypertension, ...