BMI is a 53-year-old metric that 58 expert researchers suggest officially needs an update—here's what they say is the more ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of obesity. A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

A recent study revealed that aerobic fitness is more important than BMI when it comes to longevity. Experts explain why ...

Research reveals that how we perceive the size and weight of body parts, such as hands, differs from our perception of ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

An international group of experts proposes two new categories of disease: preclinical and clinical obesity and the FDA ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...