What's The New Definition Of Obesity, Does It Include BMI? Lancet’s Updated Guidelines Explained
BMI over 30 is considered obese. But those having excess fat may not have a BMI 30, which shows under-diagnosis of people and ...
Forget BMI—there's a 2,000-year-old technique for measuring body fat that's more useful
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
Fat lot of good: What we really need to know about obesity
Have you ever heard of BMI? It stands for Body Mass Index, a number you get when you divide someone’s weight by the square of their height. It was invented way back in 1832 ...
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Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
Banking crisis figure Joe Mollicone paying $70 a month toward $12M tab to taxpayers
Notorious banking crisis figure Joseph Mollicone appeared in court Wednesday to check up on his restitution payments to Rhode ...
80 cm for women, 90 for men: Researchers find new measure for obesity in India and it has nothing to do with your weight
New obesity criteria for Indians now include waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. Abdominal obesity is indicated ...
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One Racial Group Is Less Likely to Go Through With Bariatric Surgery
Although a comparable proportion of Black and non-Black patients discussed surgical weight loss with their provider (9.5% vs ...
FDA bans Red Dye 3 over cancer concerns
The controversial artificial food dye Red 3 was banned Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration nearly 35 years after ...
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'A terrible tool': The problem with BMI
A person with a BMI over 30 is considered to be 'obese', which ... The BMI was initially based on a study set of European men. "Of course, not everyone is a thin white male, wasn't then and ...
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BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.
Women with a waist size over 35 inches and men with a waist larger than 40 inches are at higher risk of developing metabolic diseases, she said. What if your doctor only looks at BMI? Some doctors ...
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BMI forecasts 6.3% growth for PHL this year
FURTHER monetary easing is seen to prop up gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the Philippines, Fitch Solutions’ unit BMI said, as this would provide ... to improve at least for the Philippines ...