Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University, on the outdated Body Mass Index used to gauge obesity.

Visceral fat, which tends to be concentrated deep in the abdominal region around important internal organs and leads to ...

But BMI—a calculation based on height and weight—has been widely criticized as flawed and misleading, and some health ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has been a standard tool for assessing health, but it faces criticism for not accurately reflecting ...

Nutritionist and dietitian Maya Feller helps break down a report from The Wall Street Journal about the metrics and accuracy ...

Experts are turning to a new method of measuring a person’s health and risk of chronic disease, discarding the highly-criticised use of the Body Mass Index. Here’s what you need to know about the Body ...

According to doctors and dietitians, BRI may essentially be the same inaccurate measure in different clothing.

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white ...

The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index.

Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one's health risk by taking into account more than just a person's height and weight, which are the sole factors used to ...

Personal Perspective. As we shift away from the Body Mass Index measurement, the Body Roundness Index is supposed to offer an ...

Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one's health risk by taking into account more than ...