Obesity rates severely increased between 1990 and 2022 while rates of underweight people decreased in most countries, according to a new study, and the researchers believe access to more nutritious ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Maternal eating disorders, prepregnancy underweight and overweight/obesity were associated with offspring ...

Medical expenditures were higher among individuals with a body mass index (BMI) outside the “healthy weight” range, reflecting the broader health burden associated with both low and high BMI, ...

A healthy body is something everyone desires, and maintaining it requires keeping body weight in proportion to height. To assess whether the weight is within a healthy range, the Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

The landscape of childhood diet is being rewritten dramatically. Over the decades, the largest problem for low- and middle-income nations was undernutrition—children being wasted, stunted, and ...

Being overweight, obese or underweight could affect a woman's chances of becoming pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy—and male fertility is also affected by those factors, according to a new Dutch ...

When someone says you’re overweight or underweight, have you ever paused to ask, according to whom? For decades, the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the go-to tool for classifying weight. It is a ...

Most of us in Western medicine systems know which category of the body mass index, the “BMI,” our body matches. Our medical providers and the printouts after each office visit often highlight it for ...