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

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

Wen is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at George Washington University. She previously was Baltimore’s health commissioner. CNN: What is BMI? What are the advantages and ...

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements ...

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 ...