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 ...

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

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...

Despite the staggering impact of obesity on the Black community, columnist Justice B. Hill argues that the issue has been ...

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

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

MANY fat people do not actually need to lose weight, scientists claim. They say a significant number are perfectly healthy and obesity is “overdiagnosed”. Scientists reckon many people classed ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

GPs are told to use additional metrics to diagnose overweight patients, rather than relying on body mass index alone ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...