The days of using body mass index alone to find your ideal weight are over. Here is a better formula for finding a weight that enables greater health and happiness.

The current BMI calculation gives tall people the short end of the stick, an Oxford mathematician says. Body mass index, or BMI, has long been used as the quickest measure of whether a person’s weight ...

Try comparing yourself to the rest of the world. Sure, research shows that North Americans are the fattest people on Earth. But everyone else is getting bigger as well, and there's something ...

The policy that the American Medical Association adopted this week to de-emphasize the use of BMI is part of a growing movement away from the single, weight-based metric and toward a broader way of ...