Cedric Chehab, BMI's Chief Economist, discusses President Trump's proposed policies on TikTok, tariffs and energy.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI.

A global group of experts has suggested a new approach to diagnosing and treating obesity that does not rely solely on the ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

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

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio show stronger links to colorectal cancer (CRC) than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

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

Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard ...