has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), and its continued inclusion in the DJSI Asia ...

Obesity guidelines for Indians stand revised after 15 years, the focus moving from BMI to abdominal fat. Here’s why the country needed this weight reality check ...

Most of this growth is expected to occur in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, dominated by Mainland China followed by India and Japan. BMI said APAC will account for 74% of global solar capacity ...

China's economy grew 5% in 2024, meeting its growth target of around 5%.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- BMI Country Risk and Industry Research has revised its Malaysian ringgit forecast and expected the ringgit to appreciate from 4.50 ringgits against the U.S. dollar ...

Myanmar's electricity generation has dropped to about half the normal figure, as rebels have damaged critical transmission networks, causing lengthy blackouts in wide swathes of the South Asian nation ...

Minutes from the meeting will be published at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee-the Fed's policymaking committee-last month voted to lower the federal-funds rate target ...

Japan’s core inflation rate rose to a 16-month high at 3% in December, year on year, boosting the case for a rate hike from ...

Malaysia’s police force is once more battling the bulge as it adds body mass index (BMI) – a metric for body fat – as a requirement for climbing up the ranks. Officers in the Royal Malaysian ...

Share on Pinterest A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

But many obesity patients do not receive treatment, such as surgery to make the stomach smaller, because they do not fit existing BMI-based criteria ... Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.