Some researchers believe that body fat percentage provides a more reliable indicator of the potential for obesity-related ...

For comparison, this would relate to a direct measure of approximately 25% body fat in men and 30% body fat in women. The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...