Maintaining a healthy weight is an essential part of overall well-being. But while most health conversations revolve around ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults. New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed a change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The goal is to offer a more nuanced and objective way to assess body composition, by ...

Kushner helped craft the new definition of obesity as part of the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Special Commission. Instead of relying on a single number – BMI – doctors are calling for a ...

Background The primary aim of this study was to investigate the association between BMI and musculoskeletal symptoms in interaction with physical workload. In addition, it was aimed to obtain ...

researchers also collected electronic medical records data of children's weight and height at three-month intervals until age two. They used this data to calculate growth rate of weight, BMI, and ...