Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

One tool doctors have long used for measuring ideal body weight is body mass index (BMI). It's a measure of your body weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.

Body mass index, or BMI ... ratio to assess whether they're underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese, although it is not a direct measure of body fat. In the report, published Tuesday ...

A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass ...

According to the current definition of "overweight" and "obesity," a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards. But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and ...

Share on Pinterest A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else ... Instead of relying only on body mass index (BMI), which has ...

Adiposity can be determined by measuring a person’s waist ... he recommends that males aim for 50% skeletal muscle mass relative to total body weight and females target 45% — although other ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not ... suggest that BMI — the measurement traditionally used by medical professionals to determine healthy weight ranges — does not provide ...