Physicians use Body Mass Index (BMI) charts to help assess and monitor growth in children. The CDC recently announced a revised version of the children and adolescent BMI chart. The new chart has been ...

Overcoming an all-or-nothing mindset promotes long-term weight loss. You can measure your BMI with a scale, but it's not accurate as an indicator of health. We break down the history behind BMI and ...

BMI is a quick way to check if someone is at a healthy weight. Traditional BMI doesn't account for factors like age, muscle, or ethnicity. Pregnancy weight gain recommendations depend on your BMI ...

Weight is a heavy topic (see what I did there?). It should go without saying that this point that you're so much more than a number on a scale, and that many factors affect your overall health, ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

The largest medical association in the country is slowly changing its stance on the BMI. The American Medical Association announced that using BMI to measure health risk has significant limitations.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Vaccine hopefuls lined up at Moscone Center in San Francisco Monday, the first day for Tier 1C, which opens eligibility to people who are 16 to 64 with various health conditions ...

Waist-to-height ratio ‘outperforms’ BMI in identification of serious health risks, analysis of over 120,000 people suggests ...

Imagine a sales rep comes to your clinic office to pitch a new gadget to gauge your patients' health. They tell you that it's not nearly as good as the measures you already have. It performs even ...