Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

In 2023, the American Medical Association acknowledged that BMI is an “imperfect way to measure body fat.” And an English study from 2021, with a more diverse data set, found that current BMI ...

Researchers examined the relationship between a diet that provokes inflammation and the risk for irritable bowel syndrome.

For at least the last half century, obesity has been one the rise around the world, contributing to what many officials consider a public health crisis. While there remains some controversy about how ...

Experts have started thinking more broadly about what puts a person at risk for heart disease, still the leading killer in the U.S.

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

The study highlights BMI's role in mediating genetic risk for diseases, suggesting a complex relationship with conditions ...

For other conditions, like type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and stroke, the effects were largely reduced but not entirely ...

New study from deCODE genetics/Amgen highlights the importance of BMI in pathogenesis of disease, suggesting that reducing ...

The term BMI was first used in the mid-19th century, although the acronym wasn't officially coined until 1972 when ...

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