Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity using body ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

US President Donald Trump at the White House. Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump's latest White House medical report, released on Friday, put the president at a Body Mass Index of 29.7 and 238 ...

"Obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease, but BMI is often used alone when diagnosing obesity without considering broader health. The method has several limitations, and our study provides new ...

Atli Örvarsson won the most awards of the night — six. By Paul Grein Theodore Shapiro received the BMI Icon Award at the 2026 BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards, which was held on Wednesday (May 13) ...

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Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. Body mass index has its ...

A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the population. By comparing BMI classifications with precise body fat ...

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Moving too quickly in medicine can be disastrous. The previous century is littered with examples, from the scandal of thalidomide – a morning sickness drug that had never been tested on pregnant ...

A landmark analysis of 120,000 people reveals that hidden central fat is rising across the UK, and BMI is missing it, making waist-to-height ratio the clearer warning signal for growing obesity risk.

New research continues to show that many people meet the criteria for obesity and associated health problems, even if their BMI looks fine. Reading time 2 minutes Your number on the bathroom scale ...