A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

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

The medical journal The Lancet recently published a detailed consensus statement classifying obesity as a disease. The ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

“That’s why,” says Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, professor of medicine, Metabolic Research Group, AIIMS, “obesity has to be ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

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

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...