Joining Kate is the fantastic Amy Farrell, professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Dickinson College and author ...

Health NZ is pushing back against the claims patients in Porirua have been declined specialist appointments based on their body mass indexes.

Photographs showed the facial differences between twins, one of whom allegedly smoked and tanned for 16 years while the other ...

Higher BMI in early adulthood and midlife is linked to better memory performance, particularly in men and Black Americans, ...

Three GPs told The Post their patients had been rejected for general and orthopaedic surgeries, based on BMI. Doctor Sarah Leilua says it seems they're not willing to see patients who would go on ...

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalised from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to ...

Body Mass Index cannot differentiate between muscle mass, fat and bone density. Doctors suggest other markers and scans to ...

Obesity has a brand new definition now. This new description of the lifestyle disease—which goes beyond the currently accepted BMI (body-mass index) norms— has been proposed in a new report published ...

TWO telltale signs of dementia that have nothing to do with memory could appear up to 11 years before typical symptoms, ...

When it comes to achieving healthy body weight, some men might look to what’s average and use that as their goal. For ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...