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 ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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