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 ...

Obesity is a qualifying condition for an early COVID-19 vaccine in at least 18 states. The threshold for obesity is determined by body mass index (BMI) - anyone with a BMI over 30. Using a simple ...

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

There are several ways to calculate your ideal weight such as Body Mass Index (BMI)- the most common way of measuring but also comes up with limitations, body fat percentage, waist-to-height ratio and ...

So maybe you don't think you have the "ideal body," but are you actually overweight? By calculating your body mass index (BMI), you can find out once and for all whether you should lose — or put on — ...

Donna Christiano Campisano is a freelance writer specializing in women and children's health issues. She has written for numerous consumer publications and websites, including Parents, Woman’s Day, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is moving to Phase 1b of the vaccine rollout in the state, meaning almost 2.7 million people are now eligible to get the shot. Gov. Henry McMaster announced that people ...

Are you trying to lose weight? You need to know the amount of weight you need to lose. BMI is generally used to calculate the amount of extra belly you need to lose. Here is a new string method which ...

One Indiana student thinks the body mass index is an outdated, inaccurate way to measure health, and she isn't afraid to say it. On a school take-home assignment, the eighth grader was asked to define ...

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