Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said. Ten years ago Gateshead Council used all the planning powers available at a local level to introduce a blanket ban on any new hot food takeaways in the area,

Knowsley has the highest proportion of obese and overweight 10 and 11 year olds in England, according to the NHS.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes an approach that looks at how excess body fat affects health

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

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

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of King’s College London.

Novo Nordisk said a higher dose of its drug Wegovy led to greater weight loss in patients during a late-stage trial, but the results fell short of the weight loss achieved with Eli Lilly's rival drug Zepbound,

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a radical change.

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity. Acknowledging the obstacles and knowledge gaps in the field, this Commission changes how we think about obesity.