Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work?

Children with above-average BMI trajectories are at increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later ...

The following is a summary of "Association between triglyceride glucose-body mass index and the trajectory of ...

For decades, body mass index has been the go-to metric for defining healthy weight ranges, but its usefulness as a reliable ...

A major new study from Sweden has found that waist circumference (WC)—a simple measure of abdominal fat—may be a more ...

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have developed a model to predict the risk for colorectal cancer in adults aged younger than ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year's ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

Finally, because WC and BMI are measured on different scales (1 standard deviation [SD] = 3.7 and 4.3 kg/m² for BMI for males and females respectively, and 10.8 and 11.8 cm for WC for males and ...

The glycemic index (GI) is a scale from 1 to 100. Each food gets a score, and the lower the score, the longer that food takes to raise a person’s blood sugar levels. Milk is a low-GI dairy product.