He lost 40 pounds with intermittent fasting and weight training. How much would shedding 10 more pounds to achieve a Body ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether someone has obesity, alongside other major changes.

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

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

A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, while a BMI of 40 or above is considered severely obese. “BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate [the amount of fat ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

People with a BMI of 30 are considered to have obesity; those with a BMI of 40 or higher have severe obesity. However, its limitations have long been acknowledged, particularly its inability to ...

After a nearly 40-year career at BMI, Alison Smith, Executive Vice President, Chief Distribution & Publisher Relations ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

It’s time to rethink what ‘obesity’ means as an international group of experts says the body mass index has limited value ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...