BMI is not an accurate way to measure body weight or health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat ...

Body mass index (BMI) alone may not be enough to measure someone's risk of cardiometabolic disease, according to researchers ...

Doctors are increasingly looking beyond body mass index (BMI) and waist size to better understand how fat distribution in the ...

The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in ...

Body recomposition is the method you want to follow if you're looking to drop fat and gain muscle at the same time. This approach will help you get stronger and create a leaner build -- and you don't ...

For people trying to build healthier relationships with their bodies, smart scales shift the conversation by measuring body ...

The proposed new definition of obesity incorporates body mass index (BMI) with other measurements like waist circumference.

At 60 years, I weigh 70 kilograms. Kindly let me know how to put on weight.Ngozi (by SMS)It would have been good if you also sent me your height. This would have been useful to calculate your BMI ...

The prevalence of obesity in the United States could rise sharply under a new definition of obesity released earlier this ...

"With potentially 70% of the adult population now considered to have excess fat, we need to better understand what treatment ...

India's official index severely downplays the data on the days of the worst air by capping the figure at 500, howsoever big ...