Daily Mail on MSN8d
You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...
The i on MSN8d
Push to ditch BMI as sole obesity measure to end 'unnecessary' weight-loss jabs
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - says a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how ...
Who should be considered 'obese'? Time to move on from BMI, panel says.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence9d
Identifying and assessing overweight, obesity and central adiposity
People have the right to be involved in discussions and make informed decisions about their care, as described in NICE's information on making decisions about your care. Making decisions using NICE ...
Medscape21d
Docs Worry Not Enough Known About GLP-1s and Teens
About 20% of adolescents have obesity, a figure that is expected to rise over the next few decades. And while popular weight loss drugs are a potential tool for physicians caring for these young ...
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Push to ditch BMI as sole obesity measure to end 'unnecessary' weight-loss jabs
Millions of people may be taking weight-loss jabs unnecessarily as people are being “over diagnosed” with obesity, a landmark report has found. Leading medics said that a body mass index (BMI ...