Our Real Talk with a Doc columnist explains how to push back if your doctor's obsessed with weight loss. And what other health metrics matter more instead.

Retatrutide helped trial participants lose up to 28.7% of their body weight, but experts warn about excessive weight loss.

When weight loss is framed as self-improvement or empowerment, it can blur important boundaries. For many people healing from ...

In a world shaped by wellness trends, celebrity fitness routines, and active lifestyles from Los Angeles to New York, more Americans are looking beyond weight alone to measure their health. Medical ...

It’s the main calculation used to assess healthy body weight and helps determine eligibility for in-demand GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. It’s also imprecise at best, misleading at worst, say doctors.

When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer spits out your body mass index (BMI) number.

Having excess body weight can increase your blood pressure and affect your immune system. Learn what happens to blood ...

Maintaining a healthy body weight plays a far bigger role in fertility than many couples realise. While age, hormones, and medical conditions often take centre stage, weight quietly influences how the ...

A new study in Nature Communications shows that body weight at age ten and growth patterns through adolescence are strongly ...