The novel metabolic predictor emphasizes central adiposity, while integrating metabolites and other measures of metabolic ...

Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of metabolic health, and a high proportion of U.S. adults with normal BMI still have obesity. Body mass index (BMI) is not a complete measure of ...

A study found that Americans today are less likely to recognize overweight status than they were in previous decades, ...

People of normal weight may also be at risk of diabetes and similar diseases. A study from the University of Gothenburg reveals that those with an unexpectedly high so-called metabolic BMI have up to ...

Some doctors involved in treating obesity believe that body mass index (BMI) isn't good enough to treat obesity and improve quality of life. That is, some people who have normal BMI values might also ...

For decades, BMI (body mass index) has been the go-to number doctors use to decide whether someone is underweight, "normal," overweight or obese. But new global research suggests it's possible to have ...

Using a new definition that includes waist-based measurements, the team found that more than 75% of adults may meet criteria ...

Last year, my wife started training for the New York City marathon. I couldn’t exactly be ordering in Taco Bell while she was eating clean and running double-digit miles everyday, so I set out to make ...

Menopause shifts body composition towards lower lean mass and higher central fat, with changes being most pronounced in women ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a rough proxy for body composition widely used to predict a person's risk of poor health outcomes, including early death — but BMI is an unreliable metric that does not ...