The problem is that BMI doesn’t break down ... Adopting the commission's obesity definition could help spark more open conversations with patients about weight loss, he added.

A panel of health experts looking at obesity announced that the definition of the condition should be split into two ...

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

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

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Under recommendations released recently, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI (body mass index), a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting ... People with clinical obesity meet BMI and other markers of obesity and have evidence of organ, tissue or other ...

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

It’s time to rethink what ‘obesity’ means as an international group of experts says the body mass index has limited value ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that ... meet BMI and other markers of obesity and have evidence of organ, tissue or other problems caused by excess weight.