Body mass index (BMI) has long been a common tool for estimating a person’s relative weight status based on a simple height to weight ratio. It’s easy to calculate, widely accessible and often used to ...

A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough. Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said. A ...

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful, the truth ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat ...

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 ...

Want to know if your body fat is in the healthy range? Well, stepping on a scale is not the best way to figure that out. An international panel of experts is now recommending a more nuanced and ...

It is difficult to have a successful weight loss journey if you don't know your destination. This post is dedicated to helping you answer a surprisingly difficult question: What is my ideal weight? A ...

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

“It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," one doctor says. “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a ...

So the, the question we're investigating in this study is whether the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, which is *** medication for weight loss and diabetes, um, is associated with *** lower risk of ...