For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Several studies have looked at different digital "body fat" scales and how they stack up compared to the types of devices that are used in clinical research. According to Dr. Leslie Heinberg, Director ...

I remember the first time a doctor calculated my body mass index. I was 13 and up until that point had been one of the skinniest kids in my class. But then puberty struck, my hormones went haywire, ...