Amid renewed criticism of the body mass index (BMI) as a diagnostic criterion for obesity, a 2,000-year-old technique used by ...
A document endorsed by more than 56 experts worldwide, published in 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology', proposes a change ...
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
Lose weight. But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according to the BMI scale doesn't mean a person is unhealthy.
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
If you’re short on time, Stoner recommends the three-minute step test as another alternative that offers a score of aerobic ...
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
One of the primary limitations of the BMI is its inability to distinguish between the fat mass and the lean muscle mass.
Researchers highlight that having a normal BMI does not always indicate good health, as high body fat can increase the risk ...
In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
A new report suggests that a diagnosis of obesity should depend on patients' individual health — not their Body Mass Index.