BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...
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Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
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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Doctors reveals why BMI alone can’t determine obesity
Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.
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Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
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 ...
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Why BMI is not the obesity measurement we need
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.
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New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...
STAT10d
Beyond BMI: New report reframes obesity as a spectrum of illness, not just a risk factor
The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be demoted to just a first step in making a more nuanced diagnosis of obesity as a disease, one that distinguishes ...
Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
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Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight Getty An international committee of scientists has proposed a new way to ...
Time9d
Experts Argue It’s Time for Obesity to Be Defined Beyond BMI
Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial metrics in medicine. A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ...
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You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in ...
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New obesity definition shifts focus from BMI to individual health and well-being
Kushner helped craft the new definition of obesity as part of the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Special Commission. Instead of relying on a single number – BMI – doctors are calling for a ...