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How to Calculate BMI—And Two Numbers You Should Pay Attention to Instead

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 ...
Yahoo

BMI is B-A-D, a new study suggests. Here’s a better way to measure weight

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...
Yahoo

BMI alone is an 'imperfect' measure of fat, leading medical association says

Body mass index (BMI) is an "imperfect" measure of body fat with a "problematic history," so the metric should be used in conjunction with other measures of health risk, such as a patient's genetics, ...
ZME Science on MSN

Doctors Say This One Simple Body Measurement Beats BMI at Predicting Heart Disease

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...
Nagaland Post

Easy Way to Calculate Your BMI at Home Using Height and Weight

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.
ABC News

BMI Underestimates the Prevalence of Obesity

Body mass index, the most common measure of obesity, may be woefully inadequate. May 2, 2010— -- The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed since the usual ...
Business Insider

BMI may be a better measure of health than previously thought

In recent years, the usefulness of body mass index, or BMI, has been debated, since the measurement compares height and weight and may classify muscular people as overweight when they are in fact ...
WUSA

Here's why BMI measurements don't tell the whole story of your health

WASHINGTON — A high BMI, or body mass index, is one of the underlying health conditions that can qualify you for a vaccine in D.C., Virginia, and now in Maryland. With about 40% of U.S. adults ...

Doctor says piece of string is 'better' than BMI at measuring your health

A pair of doctors have teamed up to show a simple trick which could be better tool to measure someone's health than body mass ...
Healthline

Waist-to-Height Ratio Is Better Than BMI for Predicting Heart Disease Risk

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...
Healio

More than half of US adults have obesity under new Lancet report criteria

New criteria that put greater emphasis on body composition to diagnose obesity show greater prevalence of the disease in the ...
CNN

Calling BS on BMI: How can we tell how fat we are?

When Kate Townsend took her kids for their back-to-school health checkups last month, she got a surprise. The Western Springs, Illinois, mother of three wanted to make sure their vaccinations were ...