A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

That means muscular people, including athletes, can have high BMI and could be considered on paper to have obesity when in reality they do not have too much body fat, also known as adiposity.