Indians face higher diabetes and heart risks at lower body mass index (BMI) levels than Western populations.

How much can one simple number tell you about your health? A growing body of research over the past few years has highlighted the shortcomings of the body mass index (BMI), a basic measure of ...

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 ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful, the truth ...

Body mass index (better known as BMI) has long been used to get a quick and easy snapshot of a person's body fat levels. To calculate someone's BMI, you divide their weight in kilograms by their ...

People classed as “overweight” according to BMI can be perfectly healthy. But there are better measures of fat, and physicians are finally using them ...

During the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Ilona Maher was a breakout star, an athletic marvel who possessed an astonishing combination of speed and strength. As the 27-year-old member of Team ...