BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

New research exposes critical flaws in BMI measurements, as medical experts advocate for more accurate and inclusive methods ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

Women with a waist size over 35 inches and men with a waist larger than 40 inches are at higher risk of developing metabolic diseases, she said. What if your doctor only looks at BMI? Some doctors ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

they could use the waist-to-height ratio in conjunction with BMI to make sure they are definitely within a healthy range or not. Kate is a fitness writer for Men’s Health UK where she ...

A new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology challenges the conventional reliance on Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

A new study conducted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has found a link between the body mass index (BMI) in both men and women ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

A new report suggests that a diagnosis of obesity should depend on patients' individual health — not their Body Mass Index.