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

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

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is calling for redefining obesity, emphasizing more comprehensive methods than BMI, ...

The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping ... trap Black men on the streets Obesity ...

Because it is easy to measure and compare, BMI has long been used as a tool to ... who led the group proposing the new approach. Conventional methods lead to unnecessary treatment for some people ...