A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Experts from AIIMS Delhi emphasised obesity’s harmful health effects and the need for preventive actions, supporting Prime ...

(CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based ... obtain an individual’s BMI. Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect ...

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the much-contested body mass index (BMI).

First, instead of using BMI to define obesity, the authors propose using ... which would not be good from a preventive health care standpoint. CNN: Do you think there will be big changes based ...

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Comprehensive study exposes critical health risks of obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while offering ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle ... The researchers explained that relying on BMI alone doesn’t give health care professionals a full picture of consumers’ health. Instead, they suggest ...