Using waist-to-height ratio is more effective at predicting an individual’s heart disease risk than body mass index (BMI), ...

A small new study suggests that people who’ve used GLP-1 drugs to reach a healthy weight can spread out their injections without regaining lost pounds.

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID, can cause malnutrition and weight loss in children and adults even when ...

I still remember the first time I caught my nephew sneaking a third juice box at a family barbecue. He was six, all sticky ...

For decades, BMI (body mass index) has been the go-to number doctors use to decide whether someone is underweight, "normal," overweight or obese. But new global research suggests it's possible to have ...

Normal-weight abdominal obesity combines normal BMI (18.5–24.9) with high waist circumference. The main outcomes were hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, and high triglycerides.

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...

The body-mass index (BMI) value associated with the lowest risk for all-cause mortality is now 27, up from 24 in the 1970s, according to a large Danish cohort study. That means the lowest-risk BMI is ...

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A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...