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 ...

Using a tape measure to assess waist-to-height ratio may help pinpoint people who have more fat stored around their vital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A pair of doctors have teamed up to show a simple trick which could be better tool to measure someone's health than body mass index (BMI). Dr Clare Bailey Mosley - wife of the late Dr Michael Mosley - ...

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 ...

People who seek medical treatment for obesity or an eating disorder do so with the hope their health plan will pay for part of it. But whether it’s covered often comes down to a measure invented ...