A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Body mass index, or BMI, is often promoted as a key measure of health, but clinicians are increasingly understanding ... Siddhartha Angadi, an associate professor of exercise physiology at the ...

Weight-inclusive health care is the provision of equitable care without perpetuating weight stigma among patients of all body ...

A new report proposes redefining obesity, moving beyond BMI to include waist ... a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present framework, ...

Experts are proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index (BMI ... at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation ... expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

because certain groups might face health risks at lower BMI thresholds than others, says study co-author Louise Baur, a paediatrician at the University of Sydney, Australia. Although people with ...

Yeah, so the, the new term of clinical obesity is when someone has excess body fat by BMI and another ... a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.“ ...