Amy Mackelden is a freelance writer living with multiple sclerosis, ADHD, PCOS and anxiety. She's written about health and wellness for Healthline, The Paper Gown, SingleCare, the MS Society and ...

Want to know if your body fat is in the healthy range? Well, stepping on a scale is not the best way to figure that out. An international panel of experts is now recommending a more nuanced and ...

Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three times ...

Most of us in Western medicine systems know which category of the body mass index, the “BMI,” our body matches. Our medical providers and the printouts after each office visit often highlight it for ...

A new study has concluded that being too thin can be more deadly than being overweight or mildly obese—and with researchers concluding it is possible to be 'fat but fit'. The scientists followed ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found that BMI — a measurement that is commonly used to determine whether a ...