Perhaps the new approach could direct people with downstream consequences of obesity to receive needed medical care sooner. The proposed change in definition could also help reduce stigma around ...

Using body-mass index (BMI) to tell who is overweight or obese is not reliable, and can result in misdiagnosis, the Commission on Clinical Obesity says in a new paper published today in The Lancet ...

By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition of the condition released by an international ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...

CNN: How is the new definition proposed by this global commission different? Wen: This commission, composed of 58 experts worldwide, proposes that obesity be thought of differently from the ...