BMI charts also display the ranges for the categories of underweight, overweight, and obesity. Carrying too much or too little weight can increase a person’s risk of health problems, either in ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass index, that could change clinical care.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

Among the most important changes are new ways to diagnose obesity and its stages. BMI is not everything, and the scale number is not definitive, "it has been wrongly defined as such", argues Ciudin.

The report introduces an important new category called “pre-clinical obesity” for individuals with a BMI over 25 who don’t yet show health complications.

Kids normally have their body-mass index decline between 1 and 6 years of age About 10% have their BMI remain the same in those early years and they are more likely to become obese by age 9 ...

A BMI of 30 or above generally classifies adults as having obesity, according to the WHO. (The recommended cutoff is 27.5 in Asians.) But the metric represents weight divided by height squared ...

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