You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...
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Push to ditch BMI as sole obesity measure to end 'unnecessary' weight-loss jabs
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - says a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how ...
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.
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Identifying and assessing overweight, obesity and central adiposity
BMI 98th centile + 2.05 SDs severe obesity: BMI 99.6th centile + 2.68 SDs. Use clinical judgement when interpreting BMI below the 91st centile, especially the healthy weight category in BMI charts ...
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Push to ditch BMI as sole obesity measure to end 'unnecessary' weight-loss jabs
Millions of people may be taking weight-loss jabs unnecessarily as people are being “over diagnosed” with obesity ... score chart. The UK currently defines obesity as anyone with a BMI ...
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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
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Beyond BMI: New framework redefines obesity
However, when it comes to diagnosing obesity, BMI can be a somewhat blunt ... for clinical obesity in adults and 13 criteria for children and adolescents. The criteria include things like sleep ...