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

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

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

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

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

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

Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard ...

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

New research challenges everything we thought we knew about weight and longevity. Scientific evidence now shows that fitness ...

New research exposes critical flaws in BMI measurements, as medical experts advocate for more accurate and inclusive methods ...