New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

The report comes amid a significant rise in obesity around the globe. The World Health Organization estimates more than 1 ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by more than 75 medical organizations ...

China is aiming to beef up physical education in schools, making it core to the curriculum rather than a secondary subject, authorities said as they push for a more "holistic education" amid growing ...

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

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.