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 ...

The beginning was in 2003. Laws requiring school systems to evaluate children using body-mass index (BMI) instruments—a common approach for grouping people based on height and weight—have passed 29 ...

Despite the limitations of body mass index (BMI), the measure effectively screened children and adolescents for elevated adiposity, both as expressed by fat mass index (FMI) and percentage of body fat ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those with a high BMI were 29 times more likely to have a high fat mass index, or FMI, than those with lower BMI ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DALLAS — In this Healio video exclusive, Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes’ captain Rod Brind’Amour is a fitness fanatic, often stretching, riding a stationary bike and lifting weights — on the same day the team practices. It’s a regimen ...

If you've ever stood on a scale at the doctor's office only to be told your health status based on a single number, you're not alone. For decades, we've been conditioned to believe that Body Mass ...

Among Lexie Manion’s memories of her junior year of high school in New Jersey was the experience of being regularly hassled by a school nurse who was trying to weigh her. The nurse, Manion recalled, ...