The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

Global experts advised in addition to BMI, measuring 'waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio' be ...

How we define obesity needs to become more nuanced, a report has argued, with BMI (body mass index) as a measure alone being ...

New obesity criteria for Indians now include waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. Abdominal obesity is indicated ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) has officially announced the JK Police Constable Final Result 2025 on ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the super-heavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the super-heavy rutherfordium-252 nucleus, ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

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

But, while generally useful, BMI can fail to identify some people who are unhealthy due to their excess weight, and ...

The commission also suggests direct body fat assessments, like DEXA scans, for a more accurate measurement, especially when ...

Calling people obese is medically "flawed" - and the definition should be split into two, a report from global experts says.