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

A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

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An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

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

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...

The new definition proposed by the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, a group of 58 leading experts from various ...

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

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, made up of more than 50 experts, has called for a ‘radical overhaul’ in how ...

GPs are told to use additional metrics to diagnose overweight patients, rather than relying on body mass index alone ...