In a video, the two doctors refer to something called the string test. It involves taking a piece of string, standing on one ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The Yale team defined BMI-defined obesity using well-established threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatric ...

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

Malaysia’s economic growth is set to be stronger than previously expected this year, driven largely by domestic consumption, ...

Higher body mass index (BMI) after diagnosis is linked to better survival outcomes in patients with localized renal cell ...

In a new study, 18- to 21-year-olds exposed to a diet high in ultra-processed foods were more likely to overeat—even when ...

Unlike many other diseases, there are no set guidelines on treatment targets for obesity, and outcomes often rely on ...

Small-cap stocks outperformed the broader US equity market as the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) interest rate cut appeared to ...