It’s a great day for those with a ‘dad bod,’ because according to a new study, it’s the body type women find most attractive.

Growing number of critics say body mass index never meant as a health diagnostic tool People who seek medical treatment for obesity or an eating disorder do so with the hope their health plan will ...

As compared with women with a BMI of 23.0 to 24.9, women with a BMI of less than 18.5 had a hazard ratio for death from any cause of 1.17 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.09 to 1.26), women with ...

2. Because BMI is only concerned with height and weight, it doesn’t factor in muscle mass, hydration status or bone density, and therefore isn't an accurate measurement of fitness or fatness.. 3.

Body mass index gets smack down: ... In subjects all with a BMI of 25, the percent of body fat in men varied between 14 percent and 35 percent, ... it varied between 26 percent and 43 percent, ...

Top Gut: US Air Force is loosening recruits' body fat requirements to 26% BMI for men and 36% for women to try to boost recruitment (despite growing military fitness crisis) ...

Another study, published in 2011, showed that people with a BMI of 26 to 29 were more likely to survive after having surgery than people with a BMI of 23 or less.

To compare age-associated 8-year changes in total testosterone, calculated bioavailable testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) across five groups of men stratified according to ...

Determining healthy weight is a complicated issue. We can observe the variability in just looking around us; obviously, we come in many different shapes and sizes. Regulation of body weight seems ...