Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Speaking Frankly | Fat Shaming," in the video player above. It's a simple little tool that's been used by doctors for decades, but the system of measuring Body Mass ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — This month, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy to clarify how body mass index (BMI) is used as a measure in medicine. The AMA looked at how the measurement ...

The issue is that BMI measures health risk by calculating height and weight. However, muscle and bone weigh more than fat, so BMI measurements can overestimate the danger for people with a muscular ...