Where you fall on a BMI chart provides some clues into your health. This article features a BMI chart for women 18 and older.

BMI doesn't tell you what I can do, what I do on the field, how much muscle I have,” Ilona Maher said. The post Olympian ...

Ilona Maher's TikTok has people talking about BMI, health, and whether the test is still relevant (especially for athletes). Here's what experts say.

As Maher mentioned, that’s especially true for athletes. Due to the simplicity of the BMI equation, “[a] person with lots of muscle and minimal body fat can have the same BMI as a person with ...

The Olympic athlete took the opportunity to expose common misconceptions about BMI’s usefulness in telling if someone is overweight or underweight with a simple equation of your weight divided ...

Ilona Maher promised that her viral online presence is exactly “how [she is] in real life”—a person who can eat a giant ...

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, have published an article in the journal ...

The only part of Victoria where maternal obesity has not risen is a tiny spot in Melbourne’s inner-east, which experts say ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DOMedically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO The body mass index (BMI) tool is used to determine obesity levels in populations. Healthcare providers also ...

“Height and weight plugged into a formula leaves out some very important determinants of health, so the BMI scale shouldn’t be considered the gold standard of health status,” Jenn ...