A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting ...

What makes a man’s body attractive? A new international study explored this question using body scans and evolutionary models ...

Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. For decades, we've used body mass index (BMI) to ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

If you’ve grown up believing that a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is the ultimate indicator of good health, you may be surprised ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

Via Shutterstock) A new study from Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, revealed that waist circumference is a stronger risk indicator for obesity-related cancers in men than Body Mass Index (BMI).

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for obesity-related cancers — but only for men, not for women. Experts weighed in.

The study found that an extra 4 inches or 11 cm on the waist increased men's risk of cancer by 25 per cent. They also found that when BMI was measured, an increase of 3.7, such as from 24 to 27 ...

By comparison, an increase in BMI of 3.7 - for example, rising from 24 to 27 - was associated with a 19 per cent higher cancer risk. For women, the link between waist size and BMI was less strong.

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year's ...