The current BMI calculation gives tall people the short end of the stick, an Oxford mathematician says. Body mass index, or BMI, has long been used as the quickest measure of whether a person’s weight ...

A new relative fat mass (RFM) equation based on height-to-waist-circumference ratio better predicts the percentage of whole-body fat in men and women than body mass index (BMI), new research indicates ...

An Institute for Systems Biology team has constructed biological body mass index (BMI) measures that offer a more accurate representation of metabolic health and are more varied, informative and ...

The obesity problem plaguing Canadians is a story heard frequently these days. For Katerina Maximova, making connections between the rising body mass index, or BMI, among native-born Canadian versus ...

An Indiana eighth grader asked to define body mass index on a take home assignment ended up schooling everyone with her answer. In her response, which smacked of body positivity, the student took ...

A new way of calculating Body Mass Index (BMI) has been proposed - but does it really solve any of the BMI's well-known problems? How often have we heard that Brad Pitt at the time of Fight Club, and ...

(Edmonton) The obesity problem plaguing Canadians is a story heard frequently these days. For Katerina Maximova, making connections between the rising body mass index, or BMI, among native-born ...