A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Childhood BMI trends — specifically moderate BMI and high BMI variability — were associated with high cortisol concentrations at 17 years of age.

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible ... Some 29 per cent of adults and one in ten children are obese by the time they start secondary school, according ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time, the 35-year-old mother-of-three and body-positive activist was hovering on the cusp of obesity ... up and play with your children and grandchildren ...

Doctors have primarily relied on body mass index, or BMI, to diagnose ... diagnosed with clinical obesity. The commission specifies 18 symptoms in adults and 13 in children and adolescents ...

The longstanding practice of using BMI as the primary indicator of obesity has come under scrutiny from medical experts worldwide. Calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters ...

“Two children may share the same body fat, the same BMI, but one is at much higher risk than the other,” she said. “You can have obesity and yet be very healthy and you may never develop a ...

Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.

(CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks.