BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Body Mass Index is a measure of body weight to the square of your height. A higher BMI indicates higher and unhealthy body fat, which may lead to various health problems. To determine your BMI, a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out changes to growth charts adding categories for children and adolescents with severe obesity. The charts were based ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Vaccine hopefuls lined up at Moscone Center in San Francisco Monday, the first day for Tier 1C, which opens eligibility to people who are 16 to 64 with various health conditions ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

As a pediatric endocrinologist, I am acutely aware of our country's surging and highly alarming childhood obesity rates. What has been a growing epidemic for decades has catapulted into a full-blown ...