As obesity experts say more than 15 million Birtons are being wrongly labelled overweight and propose a radical overhaul of the traditional BMI measure currently being used, Leah Hardy unpicks the sci

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements, experts argue.

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living with obesity worldwide.