Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible ... and growth are actually part of highlighting health problems.' Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough ...

The new framework aims to improve how obesity is defined and diagnosed. It also tackles the problems with traditional methods, which have often made it harder for people with obesity to get the ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, plus evidence of health problems tied to ...

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that ... Although not everyone who is obese develops a serious health problem, “the number who don’t develop some sort of weight-related ...

For India, where obesity has become a major health concern even as undernutrition challenges remain, population-level well-being translates into a problem of understanding individual nutrition ...

People with clinical obesity meet BMI and other markers of obesity and have evidence of organ, tissue or other problems caused by excess weight. That could include heart disease, high blood ...

obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, plus evidence of health problems tied to ...