The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on Clinical Obesity on Jan. 16 in Baton Rouge to discuss a new approach to diagnosing and defining obesity.
The new recommended measurements of clinical obesity require more than body mass index, or BMI, according to the commission, which met at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 40% of adults in the U.S. are in that category — that’s more than 100 million people…