Tag: metabolic risk
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Obesity Redefined: Why Nearly 70% of US Adults Could Be Obese Under New Criteria
New obesity metrics shift the goalposts for American health A landmark shift in how obesity is defined could reclassify a dramatic share of the U.S. adult population as obese. A new framework combines traditional BMI with measurements of fat distribution, revealing that roughly 68.6% of adults meet the updated obesity criteria, up from 42.9% under…
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Obesity Redefined: Why Nearly 70% of U.S. Adults Could Be Classified as Obese
The big shift in how we measure obesity A landmark redefinition of obesity is reshaping how health professionals identify risk. While traditional BMI (body mass index) has long served as the standard, researchers are now combining BMI with direct measures of fat distribution—such as waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio—to capture metabolic risk more…