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

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

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

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

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

A woman in her third trimester has shared an exchange that led her to believe she had pregnancy body dysmorphia. On December 4, TikTok user @lifewither posted a video in which she detailed a ...

The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be demoted to just a first step in making a more nuanced diagnosis of obesity as a disease, one that distinguishes ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure. The new guidance comes from the ...

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology: global commission proposes major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, going beyond BMI to ...