Boston City Councilor Sharon Durkan proposed the idea as a way to promote healthier habits among residents and also raise ...

While the QMJHL commissioner, Mario Cecchini, was scheduled to attend the event to officially welcome the province’s new ...

Telly Justice, the executive chef and co-owner of the fine-dining restaurant HAGS in Manhattan, told BI the red flags she ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

Cardiorespiratory fitness significantly reduces mortality risks regardless of BMI, highlighting fitness as a critical health ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.

But a new report suggests that BMI should no longer be used as a measure of an individual's health. BMI is calculated using a person's weight and height, and doctors may tell those who fall into ...

But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...

A Lancet Global Commission report has recommended a new, nuanced approach that looks at measures of body fat such as waist ...

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial metrics in medicine. A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ...