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 ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

Stanford said that waist size is a reliable measure of weight-related health ... And I do see that BMI does exceed these guidelines, but how does this relate to my current health status?', ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of obesity. A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through ...

BMI is a formula that uses a person's height and weight ratio to assess whether they're underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese, although it is not a direct measure of body fat.

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

“The report also outlined the harms and benefits of using BMI and pointed to BMI as an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups given that it does not account for differences across ...

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

While it’s true that fatter people typically have a higher BMI, it does not work well as a diagnostic ... weight measurements can then be used to calculate the buoyant force acting on the ...