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Forget BMI—there's a 2,000-year-old technique for measuring body fat that's more useful
between 15 and 35% of men with non-obese BMIs would be reclassified as obese. However, it turns out that BMI both under- and over-diagnoses obesity. The same study found that up to half of the ...
The Independent28d
Is your BMI misleading you? What ‘healthy obesity’ really means according to the experts
However, experts are now proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index (BMI). Under new recommendations, obesity would no longer be ...
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Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global experts
Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist ...