The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has launched the Double-Duty Nutrition Profiling System, a scientific food classification framework designed to promote healthier eating and address Ghana's growing ...

The Consistent Body Mass Index (CBMI) offers a promising alternative to traditional BMI, aligning with waist-to-height ratio ...

US President Donald Trump's recent medical exam shows a BMI of 29.7, sparking debate over his health and transparency.

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ULTRA-processed foods (UPFs) could be driving a quarter of heart disease cases and deaths, damning new research claims.

Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been used in public health and clinical settings as a simple tool to classify an individual's ...

Ultra-processed food heart disease risk: A 2026 modeling study presented at ICO 2026 in Mexico City estimates that 23–38% of ...

Medicare analysis of more than 200,000 adults aged 66 and older found that metabolic syndrome was associated with about twice ...

Comments from FDA and USDA’s 2025 RFI for a UPF definition suggest the main debate is no longer whether UPFs exist, but ...

Objective To assess the effect of different types of contemporary hormonal contraceptives on the risk of developing ...

A study presented at the International Congress on Obesity (ICO 2026) and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine estimates deaths that could be prevented by reducing ultra-processed ...

But coercion and commercialisation are to blame for unnecessary C-section deliveries, they say. Nationally, the share of ...