Lizzo not only revealed that she achieved her 'weight release' goal — she also lost many BMI points and body fat percentage ...

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

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, going beyond ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of ...

BMI has long been falling out of favor. When the American Medical Association urged downgrading BMI in 2023, it blamed its ...