Visceral fat around abdominal organs drives inflammation, insulin resistance, and artery damage in ways BMI alone cannot ...

Here’s what BMI is, when it’s useful, where it falls short and what else to pay attention to.

In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society analysis of nationally representative data from 6,905 U.S. adults age 65 or ...

Traditionally, obesity has been classified primarily using BMI, a measure of weight relative to height that provides limited ...

In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society analysis of nationally representative data from 6,905 US adults aged 65 or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead. A new report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these ...

Experts say “where fat is distributed matters,” and concentrating on BMI may cause heart disease risk to be miscalculated ...

A new study suggests that belly fat may be a better predictor of heart disease risk than BMI alone, highlighting the importance of looking beyond weight when assessing cardiovascular health.

"BMI is trash. Full stop." This controversial tweet, which received thousands of likes and retweets, was cited in a recent Medscape perspective by one doctor on when physicians might stop using body ...