Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead. A new report ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful, the truth ...

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. The body mass index is not ...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) shows that higher body mass index ...

Race-sensitive cutoffs can address BMI’s shortcomings, but not entirely.

Weight-loss jabs could halve workplace sickness and free up GP appointments, study finds - Over 60 per cent of patients in the study did not need to contact their GP at all after nine months of weight ...

Offspring of mothers with higher gestational weight gain faced heightened odds for asthma, rhinitis and allergic ...