Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

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

BMI, a widely used measure, has long been criticized for being too simplistic. It calculates obesity based only on height and ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy weight. But a new report suggests ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

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

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.