New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes ... and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...
BMI is a person ... at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the system is to influence health insurer policies.
But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance ... might face a greater health risk than those with extra fat in the arms or legs, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado ...