BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

I have never owned a Fitbit, let alone “smart” scales that purport to tell you what proportion of your body is fat. There’s a ...

The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

A global commission of 56 medical experts is calling for redefining obesity, emphasizing more comprehensive methods than BMI, ...

Body mass index (BMI) has been a controversial health measurement for years, with critics pointing out that it can be misleading. Still, it's a relatively easy stat for doctors to calculate ... in Men ...

Criticisms about the BMI maintain that it was developed on data only from men, most of them White, and doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. Even Olympic athletes can be ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...