People recovering from eating disorders say the focus on weight and BMI can be triggering and counterproductive.

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

Share on Pinterest A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight ... body fat might still have healthy organs and no signs of illness.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

The previous version of this story was published in 2022, when Business Insider spoke to Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford. It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a ...

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

“Two children may share the same body fat, the same BMI, but one is at much higher risk than the other,” she said. “You can have obesity and yet be very healthy and you may never develop a ...

Body mass index (BMI ... cardiometabolic disease like diabetes. “While BMI is the conventional tool to categorize individuals based on their weight relative to height, it fails to consider ...

A leading obesity expert told Business Insider why BMI is bogus and how to better assess the risk of overweight. Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you ...