The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

He lost 40 pounds with intermittent fasting and weight training. How much would shedding 10 more pounds to achieve a Body ...

Many adolescents and young women gain weight in the years after breast reduction surgery—particularly those who were at a ...

Two newer adiposity measures incorporating waist circumference predicted periodontitis better than body mass index, reported ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

Findings indicate a 12.8% 10-year diabetes risk, driven by fasting plasma glucose, age, sex, and BMI, highlighting the need ...

Obesity has been an ongoing struggle for many consumers, and for years, body mass index (BMI) has been the key metric health ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

One of the primary limitations of the BMI is its inability to distinguish between the fat mass and the lean muscle mass.

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to new ...

A new measurement tool is challenging the long-standing idea of using the Body Mass Index as a way to gauge body fat and ...