BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Body mass index is widely used to assess the human body’s obesity, health, fitness, eligibility as a surgical candidate or ...

Excess body weight appears to be a direct cause of vascular dementia, with the damage largely driven by high blood pressure.

Researchers say a better, more direct way to measure body fat exists and should replace BMI in doctor’s offices everywhere. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A simple number has shaped how people think about ...

BMI is still commonly used to assess obesity even though research has shown it's not necessarily a reliable metric. A new study proposes doctors instead use technology that can measure body fat. Body ...

A simple number has shaped how people think about health and weight for decades. That number is body mass index, or BMI. Doctors, schools, insurance companies, and even personal fitness apps have used ...