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 ...

BMI, also referred to as Body Mass Index, is a method used in screening one’s body fat. This is done by measuring the height and weight of a person and converting it into their equivalent BMI.

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most common and criticized tools in medicine for evaluating people’s weight and health risks. In recent decades, the use of BMI has come under scrutiny for ...

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.

The start of a new year for many means the start of a new health and fitness journey. Claire Edgemon, senior registered dietitian at Baylor College of Medicine, provides insight on how knowing your ...

Waist-to-height ratio ‘outperforms’ BMI in identification of serious health risks, analysis of over 120,000 people suggests ...

Body mass index (BMI) is an estimate of body fat. It’s calculated using a statistical ratio of weight to height and applied based on your sex assigned at birth (1, 2). Developed over a century ago by ...