Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of obesity. A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through ...
A new Cochrane review has found that calorie labelling of food on menus and products leads people to choose slightly fewer calories.
– Current evidence suggests that calorie (energy) labelling on menus, and on or next to products, leads to reductions in calories selected and bought from food and non-alcoholic drinks. The evidence ...
A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
Cosori has just unveiled its Smart Nutrition Scale, a cutting-edge kitchen tool designed to make healthy living easier. With ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also 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 ...
Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...