Bill Cassidy said in a statement. “It will help us to better understand obesity and that will, in turn, inform policy making in Washington, D.C.” Pennington, a campus of LSU, has been a ...

Maps show the U.S. states with the healthiest diets, based on fruit and vegetables, alcohol, food insecurity, and diseases.

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

In a statement to PBS News, Dr. David Cummings — an obesity expert at the University of Washington and another researcher on the commission — said that the goal of the new report is “to get ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how ... and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore ...