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

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

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

Research shows that people with a certain body shape face a higher risk of serious health problems compared to their ...

Researchers concluded that aerobic fitness was more important than body mass index (BMI) when looking at long-term health, ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

New obesity criteria for Indians now include waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. Abdominal obesity is indicated ...

Being overweight or obese increases your risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma high cholesterol, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and types of cancer.

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or more.

Criticisms about the BMI maintain that it was developed on data only from men, most of them White, and doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. Even Olympic athletes can be ...

The BMI was initially based on a study set of European men. "Of course, not everyone is a thin white male, wasn't then and isn't now," she said. "There has been an attempt to try to adjust for ...