The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

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

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

Two newer adiposity measures incorporating waist circumference predicted periodontitis better than body mass index, reported ...

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

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

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

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

Dr. Leana Wen: Body mass index, or BMI, is a calculation performed ... can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat ...

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 ...

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