A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Lose weight. But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according to the BMI scale doesn't mean a person is unhealthy.

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Your weight tells only part of the story. Body composition reveals the real truth about health, fitness, and longevity beyond the scale.

BMI is not everything, and the scale number is not definitive, "it has been wrongly defined as such", argues Ciudin. What is important then? "The excess of adiposity and its clinical impact ...

Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...

For example, many professional athletes are considered clinically obese based on the BMI scale, because it cannot distinguish the weight of muscle from the weight of fat. Sara Moniuszko is a ...

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.

“BMI works fine at a population level,” to ... rate to estimated VO₂ max do require a weight, so technically a scale is necessary here–but weight is actually the least important variable ...

The discounted scales connect to a handy app that monitors 16 measurements of your body, including weight and BMI ...

What is BMI, and what have been criticisms of its usage? How is the new definition different? In what ways could it change clinical care? Will these changes be forthcoming? And while revisions are ...