Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
Moving away from BMI, experts propose a new definition for obesity
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Say Bye to Just BMI: Experts Call for a Major Shift in How We Measure Obesity
An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...
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BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.
Women with a waist size over 35 inches and men with a waist larger than 40 inches are at higher risk of developing metabolic diseases, she said. What if your doctor only looks at BMI? Some doctors ...
New guidelines encourage doctors to move beyond BMI for diagnosing obesity
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
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Experts Call for Redefining Obesity Beyond BMI
A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...
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High BMI in both men and women associated with Fertility and Miscarriage Risk: JAMA
A new study conducted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has found a link between the body mass index (BMI) in both men and women ...
BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.
A new report suggests that a diagnosis of obesity should depend on patients' individual health — not their Body Mass Index.