Rethinking the way we define obesity could help millions of people worldwide, argue a team of researchers who want to ...

Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the US ... international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat ...

can unfairly deny access to time-sensitive care among people who are experiencing ill health due to obesity alone," according to Prof Rubino. "On the other hand, a blanket definition of obesity as ...

Studies across many decades have demonstrated that a BMI score of 30 and above, the current definition of having obesity ... a more accurate way of capturing health than BMI.

Scientists and health experts are now challenging this traditional definition ... the past few decades. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that worldwide obesity has nearly tripled ...