Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
Missoulian2d
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 ...
The Economist5d
Is obesity a disease?
By coincidence (they started before GLP -1 drugs were approved for slimming), a group of 56 doctors have just answered that ...
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Move aside, BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
Parents fuelling obesity crisis by forcing kids to eat huge plates
Nearly four in ten (37 per cent) parents say the typically make their children eat everything in front of them.
You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI 'wrong'
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...