An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

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

Academics have suggested that a body mass index (BMI) score is not “nuanced” enough to measure obesity and more assessments ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

There is a risk too many people are being diagnosed as obese when "a more accurate" and "nuanced" definition is needed, a ...

Researchers have redefined obesity, emphasizing the impact of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function rather than ...

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

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It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...

“Weight bias is stronger in people who think obesity is easily reversed by just deciding to eat less and exercise more,” says ...