On Tuesday, the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission published a new scientific consensus paper addressing the diagnosis of pre-clinical and clinical obesity.  Yesterday an NPR story highlighting the  recommendations contained in the paper focused on the creation of a more refined, multi-factor measure of obesity than BMI.

The paper suggests that "public health strategies to reduce the incidence and prevalence of obesity at population levels must be based on current scientific evidence, rather than unproven assumptions that blame individual responsibility for the development of obesity."