If you're feeling generally well in yourself, you might think no news is good news in terms of your health, but actually it's pretty important to have a general understanding about your own body and ...

Body mass index (BMI), which is measured by taking a person’s body weight and dividing the square of their height, has long ...

Dr. Sun Kim, an endocrinologist at Stanford University who specializes in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, tells Yahoo Life it’s possible to be classified as obese yet still be healthy — ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

You don’t just naturally have “fast” or “slow” metabolism, as we once assumed. “The empowering part,” says Means, “is that ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...

Dr Saleyha Ahsan meets Prof Janice Thompson from the University of Birmingham and together they investigate two very common measures of 'fatness' to see whether either of these measurements give a ...

little comparable information is available on how body mass index (BMI) impacts health expectancy. We examined associations of BMI with healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy in four ...