New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

The higher the BMI, the more a person is at risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.However, a new study has found that BMI ...

Your ideal body fat percentage can depend on your ... If you plan on using the skinfold method more than once to measure progress, try to have the same person take the measurements each time ...

This week femail.co.uk brings you level one of the diet which will suit the vast majority of people ... Your relative body-fat measurement is at the point where the ruler crosses the percentage ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

Men and people AMAB of a certain age typically ... BMI can give you an idea of where you stand, but it doesn’t measure body fat. It’s not meant to diagnose or confirm if you have a weight ...

Body mass index (BMI) is key method for measuring a person's weight status, and defining if they have normal weight, overweight, or obesity.

By measuring RNA in the nuclei of cells extracted from fat tissue, the team gathered clues as to what each cell does inside the tissue. Yeger-Lotem and colleagues examined samples of subcutaneous and ...

THE size of a man’s waist may be a better indicator of his likelihood of developing cancer than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

The size of a man’s waistband is a better predictor of cancer risk than traditional body mass index measurements, research ...

People with obesity with similar body mass index (BMI) measurements have differences in muscle and fat based on their age groups. This could mean that BMI isn’t the best tool for older adults, new ...