Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study. Measuring body fat may be just as easy.

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart disease, while BMI did not. Men with 27% or more body fat and women with 44% ...

Dr. David Geier joined Good morning Charleston Wednesday to break down a new study and talk about some of the myths ...

New University of Florida study finds body fat percentage is 78% more accurate than body mass index in predicting mortality risk, challenging the long-standing use of BMI as a health indicator.

BMI is B-A-D, a new study suggests. There's a better way to measure weight “It’s scary to think that we may have been using a surrogate — BMI — that may not have been all that accurate ...