Beat the hidden obesity epidemic by not focusing on the bathroom scale

Is your bathroom scale lying about whether your weight is healthy — or a health threat? The obesity epidemic is bad enough, but along comes a study that indicates that the widely used, 200-year-old healthy-weight formula is underestimating the risk for nearly half of all women and more than 20 per cent of men whose body-fat levels are dangerously high. The good news? This research can help you ...

Drs. Oz and Roizen: Beat obesity with tape measure, not bathroom scale

Is your bathroom scale lying about whether your weight is healthy - or a health threat?

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN: BMI may underestimate the risk of obesity

Four simple steps can nudge your body composition back into the safety zone -- and none involves the words diet, calories or weigh-in.