BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

The body mass index, or BMI, is the formula that’s used most often to diagnose overweight and obesity. But unlike other common diagnoses, there is a certain stigma applied to people with a high body ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a key tool for assessing weight categories and potential health risks, estimating body fat based on ...

Is BMI the best way to assess weight and health? (Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo Life; photos: Getty Images) Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool for assessing whether an individual falls ...

Everyone from doctors to life insurance companies use the system that was invented by a white man more than 200 years ago. When you were screened at your last checkup, your doctor may have classified ...

In the world of health metrics, BMI, or Body Mass Index, has long been the go-to measure for assessing obesity. But there's a new metric on the horizon: the Body Roundness Index, or BRI that some say ...

Dozens of eating disorder services are rejecting patients because they are too thin, a damning new report has revealed. The ...

Your ability to move and live independently while recovering from illness during aging, depends on your leg strength which ...

BMI doesn't tell the full story of health, says a new University of Waterloo study. The measure may reinforce bias and ...

A new study published in the journal of Diabetes Care showed that the chance of developing higher cardiometabolic (CKM) stages in midlife is increased when a person's BMI changes from normal ...

Ken Fleming wants to change that and is filing legislation in 2026 that would remove body mass index from treatment standards for state-qualified health insurance plans marketed through kynect. A ...