BMI (body mass index) has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. The truth is a little more ...

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

In a new study, researchers evaluated the potential relationship between disordered eating attitudes and nutritional status ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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