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 ...

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

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 ...

An international research team co-led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that greater air pollution exposure in the ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person’s body mass index, or BMI. But BMI alone does not tell us whether a person has ...

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But, while generally useful, BMI can fail to identify some people who are unhealthy due to their excess weight, and ...