The AMA’s view on weight and obesity has evolved over the years. It officially recognized obesity as a disease at its annual conference 10 years ago, and is now scrutinizing the use of BMI.

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly ...

The American Medical Association, or the AMA, the largest organization of doctors in the U.S., has deemed the medical use of body mass index, or BMI, 'racist,' due to its disregard of a person's ...

Instead, the AMA suggests that BMI should be used in conjunction with other tools to measure obesity, ... Weight is still something to discuss with your health care provider, ...

The American Medical Association (search) has a message for the nation’s doctors: Shape up! Six months ago, the AMA went public with the physician weight problem (search) when it announced that ...

FILE - This Tuesday, April 3, 2018 file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. High-dose oral versions of the medication in the weight-loss drug Wegovy may work as well as injections ...

The AMA isn't vested with legally binding authority on what's a disease and what's not. And, in fact, when it comes to the labeling of diseases, there's a whole other global ball of wax called the ...

Medical Group Says B.M.I. Alone Is Not Enough to Assess Health and Weight Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health. Share full article ...