The Many Ways to Measure Health: Which Is Best? Standing on a bathroom scale, calculating your BMI (that classic weight ...

As you age, the link between weight and health is more than just a number on the scale. CNN contributor Dr. Leana Wen ...

A Rutgers study found that waist circumference performed nearly as well as more complicated methods for identifying excess ...

Share on Pinterest Extra weight may protect older adults, but abdominal fat remains high risk, according to new research. DMP/Getty Images Having a higher body mass index (BMI) is linked to a lower ...

Objective Low body fat and high physical activity levels are key lifestyle factors in cancer prevention, but the interplay of abdominal obesity and physical activity on cancer risk remains unknown. We ...

While obesity remains a pressing public health threat, prevention and treatment are made difficult by the limits of the BMI to accurately measure excess adiposity, according to the study’s authors.

A major hindrance in setting uniformly applicable criteria for waist circumference or identification of abdominal obesity is heterogeneity in total mass and composition of skeletal muscles, ...