Say Bye to Just BMI: Experts Call for a Major Shift in How We Measure Obesity
An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...
End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Is your BMI misleading you? What ‘healthy obesity’ really means according to the experts
As obesity experts say more than 15 million Birtons are being wrongly labelled overweight and propose a radical overhaul of ...
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 ...
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New obesity definition sidelines BMI to focus on health
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Move aside BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
Doctors tweak guidelines to redefine obesity for Indians
A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...