Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
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US Obesity 'Is at a Crisis Point'
co-founder of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, calls out "the decades-long failure to tackle the growing overweight and obesity epidemic in the US ...