What Is an Ideal ... weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. You can calculate your BMI with a simple online BMI calculator. The BMI ranges are as follows: Obesity ...

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of U.S. adults believe it is a good thing for adults to use weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and ...

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health care professional works with the family to help children lose weight by ...

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

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

A document endorsed by more than 56 experts worldwide, published in 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology', proposes a change in narrative to align with "a chronic metabolic disease and understand its ...

People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

When children with obesity undergo weight-loss treatment, the results have effects later in life, and the risk of serious ...

The Danish pharma giant posted impressive data for amycretin one month after the disappointing readout of CagriSema.

Lean mass constituted 30.8% of total body weight lost for adults who received a GLP-1 drug during a randomized controlled ...

Nevertheless, this work suggests that “parents and interventionists should not rely on weight change as a long-term treatment approach for youth who have comorbid obesity and anxiety/depression ...