Normal-weight obesity seems like an odd misnomer, a joke, but it's not. For decades, I have argued against the use of body weight as an indicator of health because it can be misleading. A case in ...

For decades, BMI (body mass index) has been the go-to number doctors use to decide whether someone is underweight, "normal," overweight or obese. But new global research suggests it's possible to have ...

People of normal weight may also be at risk of diabetes and similar diseases. A study from the University of Gothenburg ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a widely-used screening tool to estimate body fat using height and weight. It categorizes people as “underweight,” “normal weight,” “overweight” and “obese” based on these ...

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 ...

In a review of adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D), having a body mass index (BMI) <18.5 kg/m2 increased the risk of all-cause mortality by 3.4 times compared with normal BMI. Among patients with type 1 ...

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. For decades, we've used body mass index (BMI) to infer ...

BMI. You’ve probably heard of the abbriviation, maybe even said it yourself. And you might know that it stands for Body Mass Index, but do you really know it? In short, BMI measurements is a value ...