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

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

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

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