An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

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

Calling people obese is medically "flawed" - and the definition should be split into two, a report from global experts says.

For years, a debate has raged over how obesity is diagnosed. Currently, many countries define obesity as having a body mass ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

The report comes amid a significant rise in obesity around the globe. The World Health Organization estimates more than 1 ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

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BMI has been used widely since the 1990s after the World Health Organization (WHO ... as well as combat the “massive” social ...

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

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

It’s time to rethink what ‘obesity’ means as an international group of experts says the body mass index has limited value ...