When the issue is obesity, the questions are many, and the routes to answers anything but straight. What is abundantly clear ...

Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect measure. To begin with, it measures total weight, rather than the weight attributed to fatty tissue.

A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.

Under the proposed guidelines, healthcare providers would implement a multi-step process for diagnosing obesity. The first phase involves using BMI as a screening tool rather than a definitive ...

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that relies solely on body mass index or BMI. Now health care experts say ...

New research published Tuesday concludes that the rising rate of extreme childhood obesity—well above the usual BMI ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of obesity in Canada has increased at a greater rate.

By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by ...

(CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks.