Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip ...

UP to 25 per cent more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's height and ...

Research suggests that a waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) measurement is a better indicator of obesity than body mass index (BMI), ...

Share on Pinterest A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy. A ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

A new study suggests using body mass index alone may miss many people with the disease, but the findings come with caveats.

As an editor and writer who has contributed to many national and local publications, Nicole Gregory enjoys communicating clearly on critical health topics so that readers can make informed choices for ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

For decades, people have been told that their weight problems can be solved by math: Calories in, calories out. If weight ...