U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

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 ...

A body mass index (BMI) result will label you as 'underweight', 'healthy weight, 'overweight', or 'obese'. But while this may be a simple (and cheap) way to get a quick insight into your health, does ...

Body Mass Index can help clinicians diagnose obesity and signs of health conditions ranging from anorexia to diabetes to coronavirus. However, the body metric needs details about your age, height, ...