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 ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. "Obesity is a complex ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity. Instead of relying only on body mass index (BMI), which has some limitations, the new framework ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.

A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many experts and professional groups agree it’s an imperfect tool that on its own reveals ver ...

With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time, the 35-year-old mother-of-three and body-positive activist was hovering on the cusp of obesity ... up and play with your children and grandchildren ...

Doctors have primarily relied on body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose ... diagnosed with clinical obesity. The commission specifies 18 symptoms in adults and 13 in children and adolescents ...

Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the ...