The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Lizzo not only revealed that she achieved her 'weight release' goal — she also lost many BMI points and body fat percentage ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

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 ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of ...

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

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity. Instead of relying only on body mass index (BMI), which has some limitations, the new framework ...