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) has long been a common tool for estimating a person’s relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It’s easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used to ...

Last year, The Lancet helped catalyse this overdue change by recommending that BMI alone should not be used to measure ...

The body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to categorize weight ranges (from underweight to obese) because it is accessible, ...

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 ...

A new study suggests there may be a better mathematical tool for determining potential health problems linked to body fat than the nearly 200-year-old Body Mass Index. The study, published in the ...

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 ...

BRI compares your waistline to your height, giving a score somewhere between one and 20 For years, we’ve been told that BMI is the final word on whether or not someone can be deemed a healthy weight ...