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 ...

The reason BMI is not very usable for measuring an individuals health is that the BMI only takes a persons weight and height ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.

Body mass index has for decades been used as a shorthand for assessing body fat and weight-related health risks. But for about just as long, critics have noted the simple calculation is laden with ...

It’s a dirty word for some: BMI. Short for body mass Index, BMI is nothing more than a crude measurement of a person’s body fat based on height and weight. It was invented for researchers to use on ...

A few weeks ago as I was putting my shoes on after a Sunday morning barre session, I overheard a pair of fellow class-takers talking about their exercise schedule for the week: barre today, then an at ...

Recently, an international commission proposed a revised definition of obesity that focuses on how excess body fat affects the body, and factors in waist circumference, rather than simply calculating ...

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 ...

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. For decades, we've used body mass index (BMI) to infer ...