Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...

BMI is calculated using a person's weight and ... That came in the 1900s when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company used Quetelet's formula to build actuarial tables based on height and weight ...

With the metric system, the formula for BMI is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared (kg/m2). Since height is commonly measured in centimeters, divide height in centimeters by ...

For example, body fat in certain Asian ethnic groups was under-predicted by BMI, sex, and age, when an equation derived from a Caucasian population was used. BMI/%Fat ratios were also different among ...

Here’s what you need to know about the problems with BMI. BMI is determined by the following equation: weight in pounds ...

Quetelet was a statistician, mathematician, and astronomer, not a physician, yet the formula he created for nonmedical reasons is the one we use today. The term “body mass index” itself was ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...

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

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.