New diagnostic framework's obesity criteria would capture many with normal BMI ...

UP to 25 per cent more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, experts ...

A large majority of Americans are walking around with too much body fat, nationally representative data suggests.

Many adults with a normal BMI may still carry excess body fat that increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other ...

Learn about a new study that found body mass index (BMI) may not accurately represent a person’s obesity, preventing them ...

While BMI is a widely used measure to categorise individuals into weight classifications such as underweight, normal weight, ...

Most people assume that being thin equals being healthy. But that’s not true. In fact, you can be skinny and still obese, ...

Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip ...

The prevalence of clinical obesity is high among those with normal body mass index (BMI) values, according to a research ...

People who aren’t considered obese by their body mass index may still have obesity-related health risks. A study in the ...