Background Information
Technology Networks: Leading the Race To Replace BMI
January, 2020
More than half of adults are incorrectly classified as obese and overweight through BMI. In the US alone this equates to 54 million adults...
Fashion United: UK Sizing Survey
June, 2018
A universal sizing system could soon take over the high street as retailers including Asos, New Look, River Island and Next have partnered with Shape GB, a revolutionary body volume system for measurement...
You Magazine: ShapeGB
June 2018
UK retailers are signing up to this much needed universal sizing campaign...
Independent: The End of Badly Fitting Clothes
June, 2018
Being a size 10 in one shop and a size 14 in another is a common dilemma faced by countless shoppers across the UK, one that a new initiative has set out to change...
Men's Journal: A New App Is Here to Finally Slay BMI for Good
April, 2017
By now you’ve probably consigned fitness tools like shake weights and vibrating abs belts to the junk drawer. Get ready to toss another one in there: body mass index, aka BMI...
WLEP: Malvern-based Select Research launches revolutionary new health application in America
May, 2017
Malvern-based Select Research have successfully launched their newly-developed Body Volume Index (BVI)™ application in America...
Digital Trends: Mayo Clinic-supported app aims to replace BMI with more accurate metric
May, 2017
It’s no secret that Body Mass Index is an imperfect measure of an individual’s health — and that’s not terribly surprising, given the fact that the standard was developed nearly 200 years ago...
Aston University: Body Volume Index (BVI) measurement
Feb, 2016
The Body Volume Index (BVI), designed by Select Research, uses a 3D white-light scanner to calculate risk factors associated with a person's body shape and type, through analysis of weight and body fat distribution...
OAT: Welcome body volume index; Bye-bye body mass index!
January, 2015
Science keeps growing with changes. Otherwise, it becomes history. This applies to an important variable that is very often used in the field of medicine and health sciences namely; body mass index (BMI). BMI is related particularly, to cardiovascular and metabolic health risks...
American Diabetes Association:
Time to Replace Body Mass Index (BMI)
June, 2008
Body Volume Index (BVI) is a totally new, reproducible and novel concept allowing estimation of an individual’s body part volumes using a 3D body scanner...
