This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. We'll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone's weight compared to their height whereas body fat ...

Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and the numbers keep climbing in our children. Although we ...

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Testing dozens of the best bathroom scales over the past year has completely changed how I think about them. A device that once felt like a simple tool for tracking weight now sits much closer to the ...

The Relative Fat Mass (RFM) is an alternative index to body mass index (BMI) for estimating whole body fat percentage (BF%). Our aims were to determine the accuracy of the RFM for 1) identifying ...