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  1. yalemedicine.org

    Aug 4, 2023Why is BMI controversial? BMI has been criticized as being an inaccurate tool. One reason is that a person with lots of muscle and minimal body fat can have the same BMI as a person with obesity who has much less muscle. BMI also varies (because average body fatness varies) among people of different ages and whether they are active or sedentary.
  2. arstechnica.com

    Jun 14, 2023BMI is a simple calculation of weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. In 1993, an expert advisory committee for the World Health Organization came up with four BMI-based weight ...
  3. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    As for a point of reference, a BMI of 18 became, after much debate and controversy, the minimum acceptable measurement for models in the 2006 Milan fashion week. 'BIG BONES' But numbers, and statistics, can sometimes mislead, and in fact there are occasions when the human eye can be better at adjudicating obesity than the BMI.
  4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    BMI is a marker of risk, but its use as a surrogate for COVID-19 severity equates body size with health, shaping beliefs about vulnerability and personal responsibility amid an ongoing pandemic. ... Personal responsibility and obesity: A constructive approach to a controversial issue. Health Affairs, 29(3), 379-387. [Google Scholar ...
  5. Jun 16, 2023The body mass index (BMI) metric has caused "historical harm," including racist exclusion, according to a new report by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health.. Why it matters: Doctors have long relied on BMI to measure obesity, but it is an imperfect measurement that does not directly assess body fat, the nation's largest medical association said this week.
  6. Jan 14, 2025A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat.. Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other ...

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