However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

A Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology global commission on clinical obesity published Tuesday acknowledges that BMI — the familiar metric derived from height and weight — may be useful as a ...

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.

(CNN) — For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks.