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

Childhood obesity is on the rise and is becoming an epidemic in our country and worldwide. The consequences of childhood ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

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

MORE: Obesity prevalence among US adults falls slightly to 40%, remains higher than 10 years ago: CDC The report further outlines the diagnostic criteria for obesity, combining elevated BMI with ...

According to a September 2024 data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent of U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines obesity as a person who has a BMI of 30 or more. As of March 2020, nearly 42% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the CDC. Athletes and ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults, according to the World Health Organization, affecting 1 in 8 adults. However, using BMI alone to aid in the diagnosis of obesity has ...

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible ... Some 29 per cent of adults and one in ten children are obese by the time they start secondary school, according ...