Childhood obesity has been on the rise in the United States, a trend that is putting many children at risk for a multitude of health problems – from cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure to ...

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 ...

Preschoolers who don’t undergo natural weight loss might have an increased risk of childhood obesity Kids normally have their body-mass index decline between 1 and 6 years of age About 10% have their ...

Body mass index, or BMI, is a way to estimate whether a person is at a healthy weight for his or her height. Although the measure isn't a perfect indicator of a person's overall health, it's an easy ...

We all know our nation has a problem with obesity. Unfortunately our children have not escaped being a part of this problem. Overweight children are likely to become overweight adults. There are many ...

Parents: Check your mailbox. You may soon find a letter from your school district with your child’s score — but it won’t be for anything he studied. It will be about his or her body. In what’s called ...

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 ...

Most kids tend to see their body-mass index (BMI) decline between ages 1 and 6, before starting to slowly gain weight as they grow, researchers reported recently in JAMA Network Open. (BMI is an ...