Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of obesity. A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through ...

One tool doctors have long used for measuring ideal body weight is body mass index (BMI). It's a measure of your body weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.

Queensland-based Sarah Cox recalls that in 2018, her doctor advised her to lose weight because her body mass index (BMI) was too high, despite her feeling healthy and experiencing no physical ...

Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does not factor in body fat levels. The prevalent method is so flawed that it ...

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to include metrics like Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio. Listen to ...

However, Graham isn’t your run-of-the-mill skinny model. With a rumoured BMI of over 29, at the time, the 35-year-old mother-of-three and body-positive activist was hovering on the cusp of ...

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said promoting physically fit police officers with a BMI of less than 28 will ensure they can provide the best service to the nation. Police officers ...

At the moment, clinicians use BMI or body mass index to diagnose obesity, a calculation based on a person’s weight and height. But this tool is not precise enough and they should also take other ...

A patient checks their body mass index (BMI) on a chart in the doctor's office in Denver, US, September 22, 2010. File Image/Reuters As obesity continues to affect over a billion people globally, ...

If BMI is becoming an inadequate measure for health, is BRI the answer? What is also worrying the doctors is the fact that in India, they are seeing an early and widespread onset of abdominal obesity.

All participants were required to have a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS ... with participants matched to the CLBP group by age and body mass index (BMI) where possible. Exclusion criteria for both groups ...

Obesity is currently defined using a person's body mass index, or BMI. This is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of height (in metres). In people of European descent, the BMI ...