An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

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

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

"People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health ...

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 ...

So the commission proposes to change the definition of obesity from simply being ... plus evidence of health problems tied to ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, ...

“People with excess body fat do not always have a BMI that indicates they are living with obesity, meaning their health problems can go unnoticed,” commission member Dr. Robert Eckel, chair of ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...