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 ...

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

Californians ages 16-64 with severe health conditions became eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine Monday, and severe obesity is among the conditions listed to qualify. The State of California ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. For children aged 2 and over, BMI percentile ...

So maybe you don't think you have the "ideal body," but are you actually overweight? By calculating your body mass index (BMI), you can find out once and for all whether you should lose — or put on — ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is moving to Phase 1b of the vaccine rollout in the state, meaning almost 2.7 million people are now eligible to get the shot. Gov. Henry McMaster announced that people ...

One Indiana student thinks the body mass index is an outdated, inaccurate way to measure health, and she isn't afraid to say it. On a school take-home assignment, the eighth grader was asked to define ...

A simple number has shaped how people think about health and weight for decades. That number is body mass index, or BMI.

An eighth grade girl in Indiana is making waves over her BMI (body mass index)—or rather, her refusal to calculate it. The girl, who has not been identified for privacy reasons, wrote a powerful essay ...

The global rise in obesity is staggering. Obesity has doubled in over 70 nations within a span of a mere four decades.

So maybe you don't think you have the "ideal body," but are you actually overweight? By calculating your body mass index (BMI), you can find out once and for all whether you should lose — or put on — ...