BMI is widely used as a marker of health, but it turns out that it's not all that accurate -- especially for people of color.

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

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There is an eternal chicken-or-egg debate over obesity and Type 2 diabetes—science still can’t quite pin down which causes ...

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

World medical experts say there is a better way to look at body weight than BMI. I'm a psychologist who dated many toxic ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

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

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

The only subgroup with a significant difference in outcomes was multifetal pregnancies, though the study was not powered to ...

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

Veterans with apnea-hypopnea index scores implying no sleep apnea or severe sleep apnea had higher all-cause mortality rates ...