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 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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BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
BMI is an outdated measure of health, say experts – there’s a raft of new checks that could give a clue to your current ...
Researchers have redefined obesity, emphasizing the impact of excess adiposity on organ and tissue function rather than ...
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - said that a 'radical overhaul' is needed in ...
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.