A new report suggests that a diagnosis of obesity should depend on patients' individual health — not their Body Mass Index.

Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...

In 1993, using data from white people in Great Britain, ages 16 to 64, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated BMI ...

But the report, published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Tuesday, suggested that having obesity according to the BMI scale doesn ... and Belgian men, a very narrow ...

The average cup size in the US is a C on average, data from the California-based World Population Review suggest, putting it ...

Can you carry extra pounds yet still be considered fit and healthy? It’s a question that has been posed by doctors for years.

Players are weighed before playing a game, with extra goal bonuses awarded to teams based on their weight loss achievements.

Study investigates body dissatisfaction among youth in six countries, revealing strong associations with social media use and ...

The average American woman weighs about 170 pounds and stands about 5 feet, 4 inches tall. But it’s important to remember ...

And yet, they were treated as "high risk" cases.Their stories start the same way, by a request from a doctor without so much as a 'hello'. "It's quite humiliating when you go in for your appointment ...