The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Research shows that people with a certain body shape face a higher risk of serious health problems compared to their ...

Where you store fat, as opposed to how much you have, may be a bigger risk factor for colon cancer, a study published in JAMA ...

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

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...

GPs are told to use additional metrics to diagnose overweight patients, rather than relying on body mass index alone ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...

BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.

The average American woman weighs about 170 pounds and stands about 5 feet, 4 inches tall. But it’s important to remember ...