Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

Police officers must have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 28 to be considered for promotion, says Inspector-General of ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of ...