A new University of Florida Health study shows that body mass index, or BMI — commonly used to measure obesity and health ...

It’s a great day for those with a ‘dad bod,’ because according to a new study, it’s the body type women find most attractive.

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate over the years," ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

When I met up with Megan Boni outside our local AMC, I’d had her song stuck in my head for weeks. The content creator, known online as Girl on Couch, went mega-viral last year with a catchy bop about ...

The predictive equation from the researchers yielded new BMI cutoffs of 28.2 kg/m 2 for overweight and 33.7 kg/m 2 for obesity. Using the new cutoffs, 6.8% of the study participants had overweight ...

A new study from Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, revealed that waist circumference is a stronger risk indicator for obesity-related cancers in men than Body Mass Index (BMI).

The study found that an extra 4 inches or 11 cm on the waist increased men's risk of cancer by 25 per cent. They also found that when BMI was measured, an increase of 3.7, such as from 24 to 27 ...