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 ...

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

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

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...

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

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

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

Instead of BMI, the commission recommends that obesity be diagnosed through one of these methods: Using another measurement ...

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...