Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead. A new report ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all communities ...

At your last physical, your doctor may have recorded your body mass index (BMI). That statistic has long been thought of as an indicator of how healthy someone is. While it's still helpful, the truth ...

Clinicians now see a new trend where people with normal body weight develop metabolic diseases through their hidden visceral fat accumulation.

A large proportion of the population has abdominal obesity despite a normal BMI, and these individuals are at increased cardiometabolic risk, two new studies found. “Individuals with normal BMI but ...