Researchers who have studied thousands of children suggest a new measure could be more accurate. waist-to-height ratio.
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Researchers who have studied thousands of children suggest a new measure could be more accurate. waist-to-height ratio.
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The outdated, much-maligned health measure now determines who gets obesity drugs—and who doesn’t.
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Devised almost 200 years ago, body mass index is used as a marker of health by many, yet called useless by others. What’s the truth?
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Overreliance on BMI as a measure of weight and health has deepened inequities and led to inaccuracies and overgeneralizations.
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Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.
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Where you fall on the body mass index, or BMI, scale says a lot about your risk for health problems, doctors say. But many people argue the scale is imprecise and judgmental.
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BMI is the best screening measure for obesity, but body fat distribution affects the risk of associated diseases.
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The CDC says the new charts will enable better treatment and tracking of kids with high body mass index.
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The index has remained popular because of its simplicity, but Australian experts agree it is too often seen as a one-stop indicator of health
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BMI was created to describe the average man in the 1800s. It shouldn’t be used to predict health.
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It can be a helpful health measure for large groups of people, but it won’t tell you much about yourself.
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Advertisements promoting diets or slimming products and that idealise certain body types will be removed from the platform
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If being fat is enough for people like me to be vaccinated, why isn’t it enough for us to be vaccinated properly?
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It can be a helpful health measure for large groups of people, but it won’t tell you much about yourself.
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BMI is an old health standard based on White measurements, and some experts say that should change.
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The good news is that no matter what your age, you can do something about weight gain.
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While a BMI over 30 counts as an underlying medical condition, not everyone with a high number is obese. Here's how to calculate your body mass index and how to start lowering it for your overall health.
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A body mass index, or B.M.I., that indicates a risk for obesity can qualify someone for the Covid-19 vaccine, even if the measurement is outdated.
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Some people are “constantly ringing the bell on how dangerous it is to be fat, but that’s not making fat people thin,” Gordon says.
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New research shows such weight loss might lower the risks of diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis.
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Experts call for more weight loss treatment in UK as studies show obese people are more vulnerable
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In response to the shocking news that President Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine in an attempt to ward off the coronavirus, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi what she made of that decision.
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Several simple ways of measuring a person’s health might matter more than body weight.
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Objectives: There is now good evidence that central obesity carries more health risks compared with total obesity assessed by body mass index (BMI). It has therefore been suggested that waist circumference (WC), a proxy for central obesity, should be included with BMI in a ‘matrix’ to categorise health risk. We wanted to compare how the adult UK population is classified using such a ‘matrix’ with that using another proxy for central obesity, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), using a boundary value of 0.5. Further, we wished to compare cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with ‘healthy’ BMI divided according to whether they have WHtR below or above 0.5.
Link thanks to Dr Andrew Huang.
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Most Victorian convicts left prison weighing the same as when they arrived. Some even gained weight.