Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.

BMI provides only a single value; genetic predisposition & lifestyle factors also largely contribute to obesity in humans ...

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

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

People recovering from eating disorders say the focus on weight and BMI can be triggering and counterproductive.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

Business grants for women can help you grow your business for free, as opposed to small-business loans or other types of debt-based funding that you must pay back. But competition for small ...

Clinical obesity -- now defined as a state of ongoing illness -- is hallmarked by reduced tissue or organ function due to ...

Police searching for a missing 24-year-old from Plymouth have found a woman's body. Lacey Lake was last seen in a grey Mercedes as she left Stonehouse, Plymouth on Friday evening, when the ...

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