Amid renewed criticism of the body mass index (BMI) as a diagnostic criterion for obesity, a 2,000-year-old technique used by ...

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

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

One of the primary limitations of the BMI is its inability to distinguish between the fat mass and the lean muscle mass.

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

A young Gen Z woman has shared her shock on social media after she was told by her doctor that she is "overweight" despite ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

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

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

The proposed changes, announced on Wednesday, have been five years in the making and aim to reframe obesity by moving beyond Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. The authors determined that ...

Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and ...