Angry Ginge, 24, managed to shift 7kg whilst taking part in I'm A Celebrity but his BMI was higher than expected after he did ...

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For decades, health experts have relied on body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height, to classify people as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. But sometimes, you need more than ...

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing that current methods fail to capture the ...

Your ability to move and live independently while recovering from illness during aging, depends on your leg strength which ...

I am getting bent out of shape over surgeons telling patients they cannot get a knee replacement because they are above a certain BMI cutoff. Here’s a familiar scenario: A patient with a high body ...

Although BMI is what most doctors use to track weight loss, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the most accurate.

Obese white men are about half as likely as normal-weight white men to have a total PSA level of 4 ng/mL or higher, a commonly used criterion for recommending a prostate biopsy, according to ...