Keeping a slim waist while exercising regularly is most effective for keeping cancer at bay, research suggests.One or the other is ‘insufficient’ to maximise the reduction in cancer risk, a…
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People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.
Liudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images An international committee of scientists has proposed a change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The goal is to offer a more nuanced and objective…
Embargoed until Tuesday 6:30 PM. A new report on how to diagnose obesity will be published by a Lancet Commission
Getty ImagesPeople with excess body fat can still be active and healthy, experts sayThere is a risk too many people are being diagnosed as obese when "a more accurate" and…
Arkansas was the first state to start sending letters home flagging students' Body Mass Index. Twenty years later, they do not appear to have had any effect on childhood obesity.
For years, body-mass-index (BMI), has been the health metric millions of us have been fixated on when it comes to determining the state of our health.But now experts say we…
Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales.That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do, using…
Experts are recommending a new way to determine your health risks based on your body size - and it has nothing to do with weight. The measurement, called body roundness index…
