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How an overreliance on BMI can stand between patients and treatment
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople who seek medical treatment for obesity or an eating disorder do so with the hope their health...
Are BMI's outdated? Experts weigh in
Yahoo Life UK· 3 months agoWhat do you think of BMIs to measure health? (Getty Images) A body mass index (BMI) result will label you as 'underweight', 'healthy weight,...
Doctors urged to move beyond BMI alone as a health measure
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe American Medical Association adopted a new policy on BMI, noting “significant limitations...
The ‘average’ revolutionized scientific research, but overreliance on it has led to discrimination...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe average can tell you a lot about a dataset, but not everything. marekuliasz/iStock via Getty...
The Body Mass Index (BMI) Is A Flawed System
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen you were screened at your last checkup, your doctor may have classified you as healthy, overweight or obese based on your body mass index (BMI)....
New medical policy finally address the limitations and flaws of BMI
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBMI is calculated by dividing a person’s weight by their height squared. Earlier this month, the...
The American Medical Association admits BMI is racist
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoBody Mass Index (BMI), a seemingly simple health metric calculated by taking an individual’s weight,...
‘Everything Is Predictable’ Review: The Secret of Bayes
The Wall Street Journal· 1 week agoBOOKSHELF First articulated in the 18th century by a hobbyist-mathematician seeking to reason...
Lessons from sports psychology research
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSince the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of...
Weight Loss Drugs Aren’t A Quick Fix
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe popularity of drugs like Ozempic and a new pediatric recommendation that encourages fat teens to get weight-loss surgery show we still view fatness...
