Detail from an Ancient Greek red figure amphora of Theseus killing Procrustes, Louvre Museum. Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain Procrustes (literally the ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has lots of critics, but is still widely used by dieters and health care providers; discovered in 1832 this ratio was supposed to be part of the most objective analysis of ...

Adolphe Quetelet was born in Belgium in 1796. At age 23 he received the first doctorate in mathematics ever awarded by the University of Ghent. Smart and hungry for recognition, he wanted to make a ...

Dr. Sadeep Shrestha, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, was recently awarded the Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health. This endowment pays tribute to Lambert Adolphe Quetelet for his ...

Health professionals have been using body mass index (BMI) to help decide whether people are overweight or underweight for over 100 years. However, BMI has several flaws. BMI is derived from a simple ...

The calculation of BMI (Body Mass Index) was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician born in 1796. His proposal was that people’s weight could be deemed as relative to an ideal weight ...