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 ...

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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 ...

Over the years, body mass index (BMI) has been both hailed and excoriated as a measure of health. Because research ties obesity to negative health outcomes, including heart disease and cancer, BMI has ...