A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Maintaining a healthy weight is an essential part of overall well-being. But while most health conversations revolve around ...

The actual calculation is your weight (in kilograms) divided by your height (in metres) squared but it's also easy to read on the chart. BMI can be divided into several categories and generally ...

Dementia cases had lower BMI and waist circumference and faster declines; HDL levels generally higher predementia ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

But a new report suggests that BMI should no longer be used as a measure of an individual's health. BMI is calculated using a person's weight and height, and doctors may tell those who fall into ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...

Health experts have pinpointed four key steps we can all take now to ensure we live longer. While there is never any guarantee over our life expectancy, a number of important contributing factors are ...

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible to be both fat and fit. Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in ...

The report’s findings suggest that BMI — the measurement traditionally used by medical professionals to determine healthy weight ranges — does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of ...

BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, while a BMI of 40 or above is considered severely obese.

A Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology global commission on clinical obesity published Tuesday acknowledges that BMI — the familiar metric derived from height and weight — may be useful as a ...