Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

One useful feature of the Python math module is quick access to mathematical constants. You can make Python more effective as a scientific calculator by using these same functions with numerical ...

For many years, the Body Mass Index (BMI), a simple calculation using only your weight and height, has been the main way to measure body health in medicine. The BMI number affects many things, from ...

For instance, people with more fat in their arms and torso showed thinning in the sensorimotor cortex, a brain region tied to movement. The researchers found that higher levels of arm fat reduced the ...

As new Statistics Canada data reveals that two-thirds of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, researchers are urging the public and policymakers to rethink how we define and measure ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical thinking.

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to assess the relationship between adolescent BMI trajectories and osteoporosis risk later in life.

In a world where slimness is often equated with health, a new Danish study has flipped the narrative: being slightly overweight, or even mildly obese, may not be as deadly as once thought. In fact, in ...

This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of early-life health on education by estimating the effect of genetic predisposition to a higher body mass index (BMI) on educational attainment ...