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Why You Should Ignore Your BMI and Focus on This Instead
BMI is widely used as a marker of health, but it turns out that it's not all that accurate -- especially for people of color.
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UVA Experts Go Beyond BMI To Measure Your Health
As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.
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BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.
It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy weight. But a new report suggests ...
New York Post29d
We’re measuring obesity wrong — experts pinpoint 3 signs you may fit the bill regardless of your BMI
A global commission of 56 medical experts is proposing a major overhaul of how obesity is defined and diagnosed, going beyond just body mass index. Vadym - stock.adobe.com Now, a global commission ...
CBS News28d
New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...
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Beyond BMI: New report reframes obesity as a spectrum of illness, not just a risk factor
The body mass index is not going away, a new report suggests, but it could be demoted to just a first step in making a more nuanced diagnosis of obesity as a disease, one that distinguishes ...
USA Today29d
Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The ...