As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

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 ...

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

(Discover your BMI with the Hers BMI Calculator.) If you have a high BMI, they may do further assessments, such as checking your body fat percentage or asking about your family history and eating ...

The healthy weight range is based on a measurement known as the body mass index (BMI). This can be determined if you know your weight and your height. The Body Mass Index (or BMI) is a way of ...

BMI is a formula that uses a person's height and weight ratio to assess whether they're underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese, although it is not a direct measure of body fat.

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

Instead of relying solely on BMI, the researchers recommend also measuring adiposity, which is the amount of excess body fat. Adiposity can be determined by measuring a person’s waist ...

As a result, a man will have more visceral fat than a woman even if they have the same BMI, which is why Roy Taylor, professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University, says that “men ...

This method incorporates additional measures of excess body fat alongside body mass index (BMI), as well as objective signs and symptoms of individual health issues. The new framework aims to ...

There are good reasons to step away from the scale. It can be a place of supreme stress, in a society that prizes thinness and stigmatizes fat. Then there’s the mounting scientific evidence that ...