BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most common and criticized tools in medicine for evaluating people’s weight and health ...

The reason BMI is not very usable for measuring an individuals health is that the BMI only takes a persons weight and height ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.

A few weeks ago as I was putting my shoes on after a Sunday morning barre session, I overheard a pair of fellow class-takers talking about their exercise schedule for the week: barre today, then an at ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

Share on Pinterest A recent study finds people with a high or low Body Roundness Index have an increased risk of death. Zing Images/Getty Images Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition ...

A new definition of obesity could nearly double the prevalence of U.S. adults with the condition, a new study published ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

Waist-to-height ratio ‘outperforms’ BMI in identification of serious health risks, analysis of over 120,000 people suggests ...