A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough. Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said. A ...

A recently-published study suggests that a body "roundness" index may be a better measure of health than body mass index (BMI). The article, called "Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have developed a new way to measure whether a person is too fat without having people step on the scale. The new measure, called the Body Adiposity Index, or BAI, relies ...

With January sales in full swing, you could save yourself a few dollars on some of these best smart scales. While the Body Mass Index (BMI) is often used as an indicator of health, it only considers ...

Does your body mass index, or BMI, predict your life expectancy? Although it has long been believed that being “overweight” on the BMI spectrum will negatively impact your health and your longevity, ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the ...