BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

BMI is measured by dividing your weight by the square of your height. (If you are mathematically challenged like I am, the National Institutes of Health has a free calculator.) ...

BMI is measured by dividing your weight by the square of your height. (If you are mathematically challenged like I am, the National Institutes of Health has a free calculator.) ...

The American Heart Association’s PREVENT equations predict risk in subgroups of Asian and Hispanic people, a new study shows.

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Yet greater awareness of sleep deprivation’s consequences hasn’t translated into a better-rested populace. Data from the CDC ...

The average adult male 20 and older was a smidge under 5-foot-9 and weighed 199 pounds, which provided a body mass index of 29.4. The average adult female was 5-foot-3 1/2 and weighed 171.8 pounds, ...

The latter function is performed by the islets of Langerhans, cells in the pancreas (named after their discoverer, ...

Spain’s ministry of health has asked Novo Nordisk for clarification about a controversial obesity awareness campaign which may have broken the country’s law on promoting prescription drugs. The ...

Still, Vietnamese men remain significantly shorter than the global average of 176.1 cm for men and 163.1 cm for women. Thus, ...