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

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

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 ...

Former World Obesity Federation chair Professor Louise Baur, from the University of Sydney, was one of the commissioners and said the new guidelines "acknowledge the nuanced reality" of obesity.

In all, 6 stakeholder organisations responded to the consultation on the review proposal: Leeds Beckett University, Obesity Group of the British Dietetic Association, PHE, Royal College of Nursing, ...