BMI is not an accurate predictor of health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat distribution. In addition, BMI cannot accurately predict the health of different demographics ...

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 ...

A new study has found that BMI has its challenges as being the sole measure of obesity, especially as we age.

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 ...

WEBVTT REALLY MEASURE UP. LISA: WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR WEIGHT, MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER, AND IT TURNS OUT THE SAME IT BE TRUE FOR YOUR SCALE. CONSUMER REPORTS TESTED SIX DIFFERENT SCALES. >> THEY PASS ...

“It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," one doctor says. “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a ...

Habitual plate clearing — the tendency to finish all food served on one’s plate — is generally not related to a higher body ...

Watch the new CBSN Originals 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 ...

The 8th-grader calls attention to issues of measuring BMI in schools. An 8th-grade girl from Indiana wrote a letter to her school and refused to calculate her BMI for a class assignment. — -- An ...

Higher BMI measured after MASLD diagnosis is paradoxically associated with better survival, but a high BMI before diagnosis or in early adulthood is linked to worse survival.

BMI is not an accurate predictor of health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat distribution. In addition, BMI cannot accurately predict the health of different demographics ...