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

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

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain says any officers whose BMI reading is above 28 could lose out on promotion.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

In a new report, global health experts are urging that we redefine the measurements used to determine whether someone is ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

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

Habits like getting adequate exercise, nutrition, and sleep can have profoundly positive effects on overall health whether ...

Experts suggest redefining obesity diagnosis with BMI, waist size, and health factors to improve treatment accuracy.

“We recommend that BMI should be used only as a surrogate measure of health risk at a population level, for epidemiological ...