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

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 ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

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

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

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

Police officers must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 28 to be considered for promotion, says Inspector-General of ...

Use BIA instead of BMI. BIA, or bioelectric impedance analysis, gives you a body composition analysis, which is more informative and actionable than the body mass index standard. Additionally ...

A recent report by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission calls for a shift in obesity diagnosis, proposing a more ...