Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, calling into question BMI's reliability as a health measure.

The report, published in the Annals of Family Medicine in June, found that BMI is unreliable at predicting a person’s risk of ...

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MRI findings indicate that smoking is linked to reduced brain volume, raising concerns about dementia risk, especially with ...

People in richer countries aren t moving less they re just eating more. A new Duke study shows that diet, not laziness, is ...

You know your body weight. You may even know your BMI, or body mass index. But do you know what your body is made of? If the answer is “too much fat and not enough muscle,” that’s bad news ...

Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work?

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been the standard for measuring health. The simple formula is widely used to classify whether our weight falls within a “healthy” range for our height.

April 8, 2011 — -- A new way to tell how fat a person is without having to step on a scale may replace Body Mass Index, a measure that hasn't been updated for nearly 200 years. Body Mass ...

The body mass index (BMI) or Quetelet Index is a quotient of body mass which takes into account both height and weight measured as kg/m2, and is used as a simple means of classifying sedentary ...