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

Here, the authors show that while exercise prevented weight gain in mice, it surprisingly worsened heart damage due to excessive lipid uptake and lipotoxicity.

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An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

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

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or more. But people with excess body fat do not always have a ...

The previous version of this story was published in 2022, when Business Insider spoke to Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford. It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting ... tissue or other problems caused by excess weight. That could include heart disease, high blood pressure ...