New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
Medical News Today14h
Why BMI is not the obesity measurement we need
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).
Daily Mail3d
You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are ...
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Is your BMI misleading you? What ‘healthy obesity’ really means according to the experts
And about 20% of people with serious health effects but lower BMI would now be considered clinically obese, experts said. Recommended Mind the sleep gap: Why no one ever notices when women are ...
New York Post3d
We’re measuring obesity wrong — experts pinpoint 3 signs you may fit the bill regardless of your BMI
“Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said commission chair Dr. Francesco Rubino of King’s College London. BMI is a person’s weight ...