Overweight scores continue from 25-30. And over 30 is obese. Quetelet merely used this early calculation as a descriptor. He did not make any medical proclamations. The Quetelet Index became ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...

Weight loss doesn’t equate to better health, alcohol is good in moderation – this professor is turning health rules on their heads ...

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

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

The focus on how BMI should be used may have overshadowed an equally, if not more important, matter proposed in a new report.

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity can put strain on the heart, resulting in an increased risk of conditions such as atrial fibrillation, or irregular ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...