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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two newer adiposity measures incorporating waist circumference predicted periodontitis better than body mass index, reported ...

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.