Many feel that BMI is deeply embedded into the healthcare system and public health tracking systems and will not be easy to change. BMI is incorporated into growth charts for children, drug dosing ...

Now health care experts say one-size-does-not-fit-all. It’s been used for more than 100 years but doctors around the world say it’s time to move the field forward when it comes to body mass index.

BMI – there’s no doubt you would have come across this acronym before. For many years, this figure was used to determine a ...

Obesity was first recognised as a disease by WHO in 1948, yet this classification remains highly controversial even within the healthcare industry. BMI tells us nothing about a person’s health ...