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 ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

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

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

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