Scans revealed 34% of patients who were obese based on BMI were misclassified, and should have been in the overweight category. And 53% of those labelled overweight based on BMI were in the wrong ...

New diagnostic framework's obesity criteria would capture many with normal BMI ...

Portion size is an important component of dietary advice for weight control, but little is known about what portion sizes people consider ‘normal’. This study determined the effect of body mass index ...

Obesity is related to a tendency to discount the future. Information regarding inter-meal interval (IMI) allows meal planning. We sought to assess how obese, overweight and lean people select portion ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. For children aged 2 and over, BMI percentile ...

We recently asked always-thin people to tell us how they stay that way, and of all the eating behaviors we asked about, carefully controlling portion size at each meal correlated most strongly with ...

As children grow and their bodies change, it's not always easy for parents to tell if a child falls within a healthy weight range. Body mass index, or BMI, is a way of describing height and weight in ...

A new study shows that parents are more likely to understand a body mass index (BMI) chart if it's color-coded, like a traffic light, than the standard charts currently in use. "We think that better ...