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 ...

The study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital ... yet body mass index — our main metric for defining obesity and thresholds for intervention — remains a controversial ...

A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...

If you're seriously considering taking your fitness to the next level, or any level if you're a couch potato, you've likely heard of or will run across the acronym BMI, which means Body Mass Index.

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

New research shows being fit matters more than your weight when it comes to living longer. A groundbreaking study of 400,000 people reveals why doctors should focus less on BMI and more on measuring ...

Kushner also said that the commission does not recommend doing away with BMI entirely but stressed the importance of also using this other important metric in order to get a more accurate picture ...

An easier way of finding your BMI is to use the online calculator from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to see where you fall. Here’s how the BMI ranges are categorized: It can be ...

Athletes and people who are very fit, like Kelce and Gyllenhaal, may have a higher BMI because muscle typically weighs more than fat. But that doesn't make them unhealthy. Women's rugby player ...

When BMI was created, it had nothing to do with health. Albert Quetelet, an astronomer and sociologist, first defined a metric relating ... related health risk. Women with a waist size over ...