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Obesity in the 21st century goes beyond the scale weight and BMI: "We must measure the presence of adipose tissue that damages organs"
Among the most important changes are new ways to diagnose obesity and its stages. BMI is not everything, and the scale number is not definitive, "it has been wrongly defined as such", argues Ciudin.
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Obesity and overweight breaks scales in all countries: 30% of world population
Researchers, concluding the most comprehensive study to date on the global epidemic of obesity, found that the number of people suffering from excessive weight broke the scale, ballooning from 857 ...
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New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group ... clinically obese based on the BMI scale, because it cannot distinguish the ...
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Stopping the scale before it tips over: Preventative care in curbing obesity
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2022, 1 in 8 people were living with obesity. Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled.