For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

Today is the day you have decided to fit back into your favourite jeans, and for this you have got to lose some weight. So how will you measure if you are actually losing weight? By standing on a ...

The dreaded scale stares at you from the corner of your bathroom, daring you to face the truth. You step tentatively onto its hard plastic surface. You close your eyes tight, then open them. The big ...

If you are trying to lose weight, the measuring tape is one thing you may use every single day to monitor your results. And needless to say that you are on cloud nine when you see a drop after weeks ...

Health experts, nutritionists and even fitness experts are of the belief that the weighing scale is not the best way to measure your progress when you are trying to weight loss. Your progress can be ...

We go to great length to lose weight. Some of us follow strict diets and have a rigorous weight loss schedule. We are looking for validation from the people around and from the weighing machine to ...