Weight and body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are inappropriate and worsening health inequalities, according to a new study published in BMC Medicine ...

Dozens of eating disorder services are rejecting patients because they are too thin, a damning new report has revealed. The National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED) found that some inpatient units ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been a standard tool for assessing weight-related health risks. However, growing evidence suggests that this one-size-fits-all metric does not serve all communities ...

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional to ...

Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three ...

It might be one of the most used health metrics in the world, but there's a simpler (and perhaps more reliable) way to work out if you're a healthy weight than using BMI. Body Mass Index (BMI) ...