Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

Relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity may be outdated, say global experts. A new report calls for a more comprehensive ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

However, the new report notes that BMI can lead to both over- and under-reporting of obesity. An athlete with little body fat but significant muscle mass might score in the “obese” BMI range.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...