New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

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

However, a muscular athlete might be labelled obese on the basis of BMI, whereas someone with a ‘normal’ BMI might have excess fat that increases their risk of heart problems or other serious ...

On the other hand, others who aren't athletes but have excess fat may have a high BMI but no associated health problems. The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition ...

Under the new recommendations, obesity would be defined by a combination of measures, including waist circumference, evidence of health issues related to excess body fat and BMI. "We are not ...

The report's authors propose two new categories: clinical obesity, for those with significant health issues tied to excess fat ... this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting ...

But people with excess body fat do not always have a BMI ... who used to be classified as obese would no longer meet the definition, preliminary analysis suggests. And about 20% of people with ...

The Commission has ostensibly settled this disagreement by opting to classify obesity as a disease and developing a new framework that included a more nuanced definition that put obesity on equal ...

But people with excess body fat do not always have a BMI ... who used to be classified as obese would no longer meet the definition, preliminary analysis suggests. And about 20% of people with ...