New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
Obesity won’t be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...
Doctors Say Obesity Is Being Over-Diagnosed, This Measurement Could Be Better than BMI
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
New report proposes redefining obesity by adding body fat and health status to BMI
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
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Air pollution before conception may increase child BMI
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
New obesity definitions considered as world’s leading health professionals move away from Body Mass Index
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
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Move aside BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
Let Inga Tell You: Looking for hope in the body roundness index — the new BMI
Criticisms about the BMI maintain that it was developed on data only from men, most of them White, and doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. Even Olympic athletes can be ...
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BMI is a lie, but the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 offers truth
Use BIA instead of BMI. BIA, or bioelectric impedance analysis, gives you a body composition analysis, which is more informative and actionable than the body mass index standard. Additionally ...