Under the current rules, a body-mass-index (BMI) score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, 25 to 29 is overweight, and 30 or above counts as obese - the point at which the risk of serious illness soars.
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Dramatic increase in American adults who meet a new definition of obesity: ‘This is astounding’
By applying this new framework to a test group of more than 300,000 patients, researchers found that the number of obese ...
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Find out if you'd classify as dangerously overweight under new rules by using our simple graphic
Obesity experts have a proposed a 'radical overhaul' of how obesity is diagnosed, arguing BMI charts alone are not 'nuanced' ...
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