Understanding your health metrics is a vital step toward maintaining a balanced lifestyle One of the simplest yet effective ways to assess your overall health is by calculating your Body Mass Index BM ...
Body Mass Index (BMI) has limitations as it doesn't distinguish between muscle and fat, leading to misclassification of ...
It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group ...
More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...
The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...
The ideal weight of a person depends on their skeletal frame size, which can be classified as Large, Medium, or Small, as bone size and density vary between individuals and genders. Before ...
In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk ...