BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...
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BMI technology makes breakthrough in simultaneously decoding language and movement
The trial involved a 21-year-old epileptic patient with a lesion in the brain's motor area. The participant underwent a surgery to implant a 256-channel high-throughput, flexible brain-machine ...
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Want To Know If You’re Overweight? Forget BMI—Measure This, Says a Team of Experts
BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine ...
What’s more useful than BMI? All you need to know about a 2000-year-old technique to measure body composition
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...
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Exposure to air pollution before conception linked to higher BMI in children
Research on a cohort of Chinese mothers and their children has found exposure to elevated levels of particulate matter in the ...
Forget BMI—there's a 2,000-year-old technique for measuring body fat that's more useful
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
'A terrible tool': The problem with BMI
A group of Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...
Nutritionists reveal what your child's portion size should really be – you might be shocked
The British Nutrition Foundation has published guidance on how much food children should eat at mealtimes and the findings ...
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Millions of people misdiagnosed with obesity in the UK
Solely using BMI can lead to both overestimates and underestimates of ... “No system – the NHS or others – have had these ...
NHS accused of 'over-diagnosing' obesity as experts call for radical change in methods
The new system would see people categorised as having either clinical obesity, if their weight is affecting their organ ...
Anti-obesity medication: these are the surprising effects of taking Ozempic and Mounjaro
When Henry Conway hit his forties his BMI became dangerously high. After a lover said ‘I love your little dad bod’, he knew ...
Delayed TB diagnosis leading to deaths: Study
Mumbai: Three women with tuberculosis who died at HN Reliance Hospital between 2021 and 2023 are the focus of a study that sheds light on how delayed .