For comparison, this would relate to a direct measure of approximately 25% body fat in men and 30% body fat in women. The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged ... Use the BMI chart. First, find your height in ...

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.

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

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

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

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

Again there has been no unanimity on opinions about differences between BMI values for women and for men. Those scientist who are not satisfied with WHO’s and CDC’s roundabout figure stick to the fact ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...