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

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

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

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Britain is turning sadness into sickness. More than four in five GPs believe that the ups and downs of normal life are being ...

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

Laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the first Trump administration in 2020 labeled “divisive concepts” ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...