When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight.

Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

The mBCA Alpha scanner is an alternative to screenings that rely on weight and body mass index to understand the risk of ...

It has long been a well-established and well-documented fact that obesity — a complex, chronic disease which involves the ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index ...

Researchers found that the impact of polyphenols rutin and genistein on the human fecal metabolome varies significantly by ...

In the past 20 years, the average rate of obesity among adults in the United States has risen by approximately 30%, but the ...

A new analysis links higher triglyceride-glucose (TyG) and TyG–body mass index (TyG-BMI) levels to increased colorectal ...

A new study found more than two-thirds of Reserve and Guard troops are overweight, prompting a scathing rebuke of lax ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Tsukuba revealed that the use of a gamified sleep-tracking mobile application led to improvements in sleep parameters and a reduction in ...

A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, found that men with a ...

This study investigated the impact of such a gamified app on sleep parameters and body mass index (BMI). Participants who consistently used Pokémon Sleep and ASKEN for at least 90 days were ...