Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.
BMI is a person’s ... meaning their health problems can go unnoticed,” added Eckel, a professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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.
Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis ... a nutrition expert at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “The public likes and needs simple messages.