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 ...

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

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

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Asians, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics were significantly less likely than whites to use obesity-management medications to lower their weight compared with whites, new research suggests. The ...

Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has stressed the importance of maintaining a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

Combining time-restricted eating with exercise may be more effective in prompting weight loss than exercise without ...

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

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