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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

a commissioner and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview with ABC News. Clinical obesity, by contrast, involves ...

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 ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University ... obesity will take time, acknowledged Dr. Robert Kushner, an obesity expert at the ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.

Experts row back on ‘flawed’ BMI as new definition of obese proposed - Roughly 20% of people who used to be classified as ...

Northwestern Medicine obesity expert Dr. Robert Kushner is a member of the ... a professor of medicine (endocrinology and medical education) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100 Shaanxi, China College of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129 Shaanxi, China ...

an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report. Dr. Katherine Saunders, an obesity expert at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of the obesity ...