While surfing the web the other day I saw a headline including the phrase “Why BMI is Useless” and I just had to click. The article (from the Daily Mail) went on to describe how a New York firm called ...

A recently-published study suggests that a body "roundness" index may be a better measure of health than body mass index (BMI). The article, called "Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among ...

A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough. Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said. A ...

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The BMI scale is B.S. Roughly 54 million Americans — including the entire roster of the AFC Champion Denver Broncos — are healthy despite having body-mass indexes in the “overweight” range, a new ...

BMI gives a quick overview of body weight, but it does not account for fat distribution. Waist to Heigh Ratio is a more ...

Texans quarterback Matt Schaub is overweight and so is wide receiver Andre Johnson. Arian Foster is obese and needs to lose about 40 pounds, according to the Body Mass Index, or BMI, scale. In fact, ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...