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 ...

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

Major medical groups are proposing a change to how doctors diagnose obesity, moving away from the body mass index or BMI. The new definition intends to move away from weight stigma and instead focus ...

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

The way obesity is currently diagnosed needs to be changed, according to an international group of experts.The Commission on Clinical Obesity says body mass ind ...

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

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...