For years, we’ve been told that BMI is the final word on whether or not someone can be deemed a healthy weight for their ...

Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

On average, women tend to have higher body fat percentages than men, including at the same BMI. This is likely due to differences in body composition that prepare the female body for potential ...

Consulting a BMI index chart or using a BMI calculating tool can make this easier. The CDC offers a BMI calculator for people 20 years old and older and a BMI calculator for people age 2 through 19.

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

When I first started commenting on obesity, the government projected that seven per cent of men and five per cent of women would ... when it used the growth data it had accumulated to create BMI ...

Recently, researchers set out to explore whether your body weight or your fitness level is a better predictor of your heart ...

Find out why body fat percentage is a more accurate indicator of your health than BMI. Learn how to calculate it, discover ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI.

In the recent study "BMI ≥ 70: A Multi-Center Institutional Experience of the Safety and Efficacy of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Intervention," published in Obesity Surgery: The Journal of ...