SINGAPORE: A recent infographic published by Seasia Stats shows that among countries in Southeast Asia, Singapore has the ...
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 group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.
Watch out! Muscle fat may increase the risk of heart disease and death, regardless of your body mass index (BMI).
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease and knee ...
By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
Nearly four in ten (37 per cent) parents say the typically make their children eat everything in front of them.
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the scientists have revealed.