Daily Mail13d
You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both ... Asked specifically about the ...
Diabetes.co.uk3d
Childhood trauma associated with obesity
Experiencing trauma during childhood is linked with a higher risk of developing obesity, a new study has claimed ... drawing to a close Impaired lung function triggered by abnormal BMI during ...
Health.com8d
Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.
CNN4d
A new definition of obesity goes beyond BMI. What this could mean for you
That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.
New York Post7d
BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...
The Globe and Mail7d
Beyond BMI: A new, nuanced way of measuring obesity
A BMI of 18 to 25 is considered normal, while a number more than 25 is overweight, more than 30 is obese, and more than 40 is morbidly obese. (For example, a person measuring 1.75 metres and ...