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.

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

An apple-shaped body, characterized by excess fat around the abdomen, increases the risk of serious health conditions such as heart disease, type 2 di ...

BMI wasn't meant to measure health when it was first developed.Kathrin Ziegler/Getty ... Quetelet only looked at white French and Belgian men, a very narrow representation of humanity. His ideas were ...

"Obesity" is defined as having a BMI above 30. Given the health implications related to ... between 15 and 35% of men with non-obese BMIs would be reclassified as obese. However, it turns out ...

both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a ...

BMI over 30 is considered obese. But those having excess fat may not have a BMI 30, which shows under-diagnosis of people and ...

And about 20% of people with serious health effects but lower ... at Newcastle University, says that “men develop type 2 diabetes at a lower BMI than do women”. However, at menopause, things ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...