BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.
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New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
In a new report, global health experts are urging that we redefine the measurements used to determine whether someone is ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure. The new guidance comes from the ...