Inside life of world's fattest man who died after becoming addicted to one drink
Andres Moreno, once the world's fattest man, died in December 2015 - just days after undergoing a life-saving stomach bypass ...
World's fattest man who weighed 70st met tragic end after becoming addicted to one drink
Andres Moreno was once regarded as the world's fattest man after ballooning to 980lbs at his heaviest - and on National ...
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Men have gained weight and height twice as fast as women in past century, study finds
Men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over the past century, a new study has found. Prof ...
Irish Independent on MSN9d
People are being ‘overdiagnosed’ with obesity due to a focus on BMI, experts warn
People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity and there should be less reliance on body mass index (BMI) in assessments, a ...
New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
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Weight a minute: Six morbidly obese Brits a DAY need to be prised out of their homes by firefighters
Six morbidly obese people are rescued by the fire service ... In October 2020, Britain's then-fattest man Jason Holton had to be lifted from his third-floor flat by a crane in a seven-hour ...
New Obesity Definition Shifts Focus From BMI – Here's The Science Behind It
Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...
Irish Examiner on MSN7d
Body mass index an 'inadequate' measurement of obesity, experts say
Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...
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Roscommon-Galway TD welcomes commitment on new plan for tackling obesity
A Roscommon-Galway TD and medical doctor has welcomed a commitment from the incoming Government to develop a new policy ...
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Define obesity as clinical or pre-clinical for more accurate diagnosis, says global commission
A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...
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2024 was a record year for obesity trials and 2025 is already poised to take over
Figure 1: Obesity clinical trials and innovator drug obesity trials, 2015-2025. Credit: GlobalData. There are over 300 glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) drugs in an active stage of development ...