Calculating your ideal body weight (IBW) can help you gain some insight into your possible risk for weight-related health conditions. However, this tool doesn’t always provide an accurate assessment.

Modeling isn’t just a matter of strutting your stuff on the catwalk—it also means that you need mathematical precision when it comes to taking your body measurements. Having precise measurements is ...

The U.S. military has officially moved away from long-standing height-and-weight tables and the traditional tape test in favor of a waist-to-height ratio as the primary body composition standard for ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat ...

Body mass index (BMI) has various deficiencies as a measure of obesity, especially when the BMI measure is based on self-reported height and weight. BMI is an indirect measure of body fat compared ...

You've probably heard the term BMI (body mass index). It's based on height and weight, and it's been widely used to determine who’s underweight, normal weight, overweight, or has obesity. But BMI has ...

Recent research demonstrates that comparing waist circumference to height could provide a more accurate picture than the body mass index (BMI), which has been in use for decades. This method ...