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People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

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

Watch out! Muscle fat may increase the risk of heart disease and death, regardless of your body mass index (BMI).

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

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Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

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