This means that despite piling on the flab, the BMI system fails to raise the alarm and people don't realise they are at risk of obesity related health problems. Researchers backed up their ...

Changes to the classic BMI measurement system could see millions of people reclassified as 'obese'. A coalition of experts from the European Association for the Study of Obesity have called for an ...

Despite this, many sports organisations still rely on the traditional BMI classification system." Professor Marwan El Ghoch, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of ...