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

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

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

Obesity is typically assessed by measuring someone's body mass index, but now researchers are calling for a more nuanced ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition ...

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

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

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

More than a billion people are estimated to be living with obesity worldwide and prescription weight-loss drugs are in high ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.