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

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

First, instead of using BMI to define obesity, the authors propose using ... which would not be good from a preventive health care standpoint. CNN: Do you think there will be big changes based ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on ... and obtain an individual’s BMI. Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect ...