The commercialisation of junk food, increase in inactive lifestyles with prolonged sitting, and high stress environments, ...

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine ...

BMI is a 53-year-old metric that 58 expert researchers suggest officially needs an update—here's what they say is the more ...

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

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

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 Australian and international experts are calling for a major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, saying current methods ...

A global commission published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology looks at the definition and diagnosis of clinical obesity. Prof Simon Griffin, Professor of General Practice, MRC Epidemiology ...

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