David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum, explains how we can maintain a healthy weight and why, when it comes to ...

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The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

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

The global perception of obesity as a health crisis has long been tied to the body mass index (BMI), a metric that uses height and weight to estimate body fat. However, a recent report published ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

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How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with body mass index (BMI) as a measure alone being too simplistic. The report, by The Lancet Commission on Obesity and ...

A group of global experts has proposed a new approach to defining and diagnosing obesity, reducing the reliance on the controversial body mass index (BMI) and aiming to better identify individuals ...

A new report proposes redefining obesity, moving beyond BMI to include waist circumference and health issues. This change could reclassify 20% of individuals. A group of global experts is ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...