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 ...

An eighth grade girl in Indiana is making waves over her BMI (body mass index)—or rather, her refusal to calculate it. The girl, who has not been identified for privacy reasons, wrote a powerful essay ...

Body mass index (BMI) centile is recommended for assessing body fatness in children. We compared the reliability of two methods of deriving BMI centile. A total of 42 dietitians calculated the BMI ...

The calculation of BMI (Body Mass Index) was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician born in 1796. His proposal was that people’s weight could be deemed as relative to an ideal weight ...

Body mass index (BMI) is an estimate of body fat based on height and weight. It doesn’t measure body fat directly, but instead uses an equation to make an approximation. BMI can help determine whether ...

What is Body Mass Index (BMI)? Body mass index (BMI) is a simple tool that is generally used to estimate the total amount of body fat. It was first invented in the 19th century by a Belgian polymath ...