In the latest study to question the usefulness of the body mass index, researchers have found that the percentage of one’s ...

It was initially called the Quetelet Index and was never meant to be used as a medical assessment tool. The Quetelex Index was renamed the "body mass index" in 1972. What's wrong with the BMI?

A study has now taken a look back at a “workout” practiced for about 3,000 years, focusing less on sweat and muscle gain and ...

In the world of health metrics, BMI, or Body Mass Index, has long been the go-to measure for assessing obesity. But there's a new metric on the horizon: the Body Roundness Index, or BRI that some ...

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.

For years, we’ve been told that BMI is the final word on whether or not someone can be deemed a healthy weight for their height. But no longer, according to the NHS’ own body mass index ...

In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 ...

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 ...

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 Index (BMI ...

Body roundness index takes into account a person's hips and waist measurements. While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person's health, used by doctors and health insurers ...

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 ...

The Opinion Pages Body Mass Index Measures Only So Much Victoria Pitts-Taylor is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.