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 ...

Like virtually all gadgets and gear these days, scales have become seriously technologically advanced. We're getting used to having more and more data about ourselves readily available, from the ...

Health is about more than weight, which is why modern smart scales do more than weigh you. While these scales can’t yet tell you if those jeans make your butt look good, they can measure and track ...

Today’s scales are a lot more advanced than the ones you likely saw sitting in your grandparents’ bathroom. Those weighted scales could only tell you a basic figure for how many pounds you weighed on ...

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 ...

Accurate measurement of patient weight is an essential part of nutritional assessment but may also inform other aspects of care. Staff carrying out this procedure require training and need to ...

A digital weigh scale is one of the most precise analog instruments. Weigh scales, which use force sensors to measure the load offered by an object, are used in a multitude of applications ranging ...