World medical experts say there is a better way to look at body weight than BMI. I'm a psychologist who dated many toxic ...

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

Obesity, a new report recommends, should be diagnosed by an individual’s body fat percentage, not weight, which was the norm ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...

BMI is widely used as a marker of health, but it turns out that it's not all that accurate -- especially for people of color.

Humans with relatively more fat hidden in and around their muscles face a higher risk of death or hospitalization from heart ...

This small but meaningful change seen in California may add up to a generational impact on consumption, but only time will tell.

New checks on people wanting drugs such as Wegovy or Mounjaro will include verifying their body mass index in a video ...

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

New research published in the European Heart Journal reveals that 'muscle fat' around muscles can increase the risk of death ...