BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most common and criticized tools in medicine for evaluating people’s weight and health risks. In recent decades, the use of BMI has come under scrutiny for ...

What's your number -- under 25 or over 35? Body mass index (BMI) may not be a term that's on everyone's lips, but it's important for your health to understand what it is and to know your number.

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

An eighth-grader in Indiana was asked to calculate her body mass index for a homework assignment. You can figure out BMI by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. The higher the ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is moving to Phase 1b of the vaccine rollout in the state, meaning almost 2.7 million people are now eligible to get the shot. Gov. Henry McMaster announced that people ...

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