A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of obesity. A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through ...

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

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

"BMI does not accurately reflect body weight. Actually. it doesn’t differentiate between lean body mass and body fat. If you have a high muscle mass your weight might be higher than expected ...

Instead of relying only on body mass index (BMI), which has some limitations, the new framework introduces improved ways to identify and understand obesity, for example, by separating early signs ...

Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...