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 ...

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

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

Body mass index score is used to ascertain whether an individual's body weight is normal or in excess with respect to one's ...

Many people meet the requirements for clinical obesity despite having a body mass index within the expected or average ranges.

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 ...

Anthropometric measures indicate that clinical obesity is highly prevalent among adults who are classified as having a normal BMI.