A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by ...

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

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

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

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Using body-mass index to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on ...