Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

A group of global health experts are proposing changes to how ... BMI has been a cornerstone of obesity ... an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple messages.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

Despite BMI’s ubiquity of use by health care professionals, it’s far from a perfect measure. To begin with, it measures total weight, rather than the weight attributed to fatty tissue.

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters.. A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, while a BMI of 40 or above is considered severely obese. A ...

A BMI of 30 or above generally classifies adults as having obesity, according to the WHO. (The recommended cutoff is 27.5 in Asians.) But the metric represents weight divided by height squared ...

Importantly, McGarrity notes, weight loss itself wasn’t associated with these positive changes to health. Change in BMI did not correlate with depression, anxiety, or dysregulated eating—implying that ...