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

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Officials said while BMI relies on height and weight, body roundness index incorporates waist size — giving a clearer view of ...

A new measurement tool is challenging the long-standing idea of using the Body Mass Index as a way to gauge body fat and ...

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“That’s why,” says Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, professor of medicine, Metabolic Research Group, AIIMS, “obesity has to be ...

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