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.

For decades, the body mass index (BMI) has been used for this purpose, with calculations based on height and weight. Despite its convenience, BMI has faced increasing criticism.

With the Prime Day sales about to start, you could save yourself a few dollars on some of these best smart scales. While the Body Mass Index (BMI) is often used as an indicator of health, it only ...

The Quetelet index was later adopted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who wanted to establish tables for normal weights of the mostly white men and women they insured. In 1972, physiologist ...

Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition measurement that is touted as being a more accurate alternative to Body Mass Index. In a large retrospective study of 33,000 U.S. adults ...

The term BMI is all over health care. The abbreviation stands for body mass index, a simple number that has evolved into a ubiquitous medical tool for obesity screening. For example, a BMI from 18 ...