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

The main takeaway is that it’s not so much BMI that changes over the years, but rather the distribution of fat and muscle tissue. To reach these conclusions, the researchers studied the body ...

The season in which you were conceived could have a surprising impact on how your metabolism works today. The largest study ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

The nations growing obesity challenge particularly the rise in abdominal obesity is a call to action The key to better health ...

BMI vs. Body Fat We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of how much body ...

New research presented at the Congress on Obesity reveals significant differences in body composition among people with similar BMIs, showing higher fat in central regions and reduced muscle mass in ...

The size of a man’s waistband is a better predictor of cancer risk than traditional body mass index measurements, research ...

and only 6% had normal BMI. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is considered the gold-standard for accurate body fat measuring; however, this expensive device is not universally available in ...