Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Being overweight is defined as having more body fat than is ideal for good health. Body mass index (BMI) is a measuring tool to define whether a person is in ...

Use this chart to estimate your obesity level based on your weight and height. An example is shown for an individual who weighs 80 kg (176 lbs) and stands 1.75 meters (175 cm or 69 inches) tall. Those ...

In countless reports and studies, obesity is often reduced to just a number: 42% of adults in the U.S. have obesity, ...

The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in ...

One third of Alabama children are either overweight or obese, placing them on the top of obesity charts nationally. Among racial and ethnic populations such as African American and Hispanic, obesity ...

Chart 1 shows the gender-wise change in overweight and obesity levels in India based on BMI figures. Any person with a BMI between 25.0 and 29.9 would be considered ‘overweight’ and an index ...