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.

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.

A global commission of 56 medical experts is calling for redefining obesity, emphasizing more comprehensive methods than BMI, ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

BMI is an outdated measure of health, say experts – there’s a raft of new checks that could give a clue to your current ...

Explore the pros and cons of BMI for men and women. Learn how Body Mass Index is calculated, what a healthy BMI range is, and ...

For example, if you’re an athlete or bodybuilder ... But while body fat may seem more useful than BMI, there’s no simple formula to work it out. Tests may be expensive, not readily available ...

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“No simple math formula or number on the scale can ... who is fit and healthy — a sumo wrestler, for example — can have a high BMI while someone who is thin and ill can have a low BMI ...