Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

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

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...

Academics have suggested that a body mass index (BMI) score is not “nuanced” enough to measure obesity and more assessments ...

BMI is out! Dr. Mike Cirigliano breaks down the new concept of how to identify obesity. Tiger Woods handed damning verdict on ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...