The Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition measurement that is touted as being a more accurate alternative to Body Mass Index. In a large retrospective study of 33,000 US adults, researchers ...

New research points to a better way to measure obesity than body mass index. Body mass index was first developed in 1832 and has been the standard way to estimate a person’s body fat since the 1980s.

Good health news always seems in short supply as you get older. So I was willing to take it as a win when my primary care doctor commented awhile back, “Well, at least you’ve aged out of early-onset ...