How an overreliance on BMI can stand between patients and treatment

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BMI is tied to a measure of obesity invented almost 200 years ago. Critics say it was never meant as a diagnostic health tool.

Case in point: “Black women who are between 31 and 33 BMI tend to have better health status even at that above-30 level” than other women and men, Stanford said., including the long-running Nurses’ Health Study, found that Asians had a greater risk of developing diabetes as they gained weight, compared with whites and certain ethnic groups. As a result, countries such as China and Japan have set lower BMI overweight and obesity thresholds for people of Asian descent.

Instead of relying on BMI, physicians and patients should consider other factors in the weight equation. One is being aware of where weight is distributed. Studies have shown that health risks increase if a person carries excess weight in the midsection. “If someone has thick legs and most of their weight is in the lower body, it’s not nearly as harmful as if they have it around their midsection, especially their organs,” said Creel.

New ways to define and diagnose obesity are in the works, including a panel of international experts convened by the prestigious Lancet Commission, said Stanford, a member of the group. Any new criteria ultimately approved might not only help inform physicians and patients, but also affect insurance coverage and public health interventions.

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Don't trust any doctors. Bought and paid for by big pharma

NBC--How many more times will you post this? And WHY?

When you can no longer wipe your butt properly, you are probably fat. Can I say 'fat'? Is that still allowed?

Duh. I’ve been saying that for decades. It’s just another name for the old height-weight chart, which is unrealistic and harmful, especially to girls and women.

Anyone in the fitness can tell you this. When the scale implies anyone with an ounce of muscle on their frame is basically obese, the scale is flawed.

Dont normalise fat chicks people. It aint right

I have a mirror that tells me i’m fat. The bmi is bullshit

Do you really believe this? Is some fat retard is forcing you to publish this bullshit? Really?

I agree that some ppl are genetically predisposed to be fat. My nephews have the same Mom, different fathers, raised in the same home together. Same foods. The kid from the fat father is fat. Other nephew is thin like his father. Fair? No. But obesity isn’t safe or healthy.

This article makes an excellent point how BMI doesn’t distinguish between muscle weight and fat weight, I’ve had low percent body fat and still fell into “obese” category by the BMI standard because of muscle mass. It was weird to reconcile.

That is correct. Underwater submersion to determine body fat percentage is much more useful.

Stop normalizing obesity

The lazy fats of this country will do anything to deny what they are nowadays

Duh. This has been known.

It doesn’t seem to work so well for males. Does it discern between muscle mass and fat?

It’s only a very basic measurement of health. Far too many variables impact that arbitrary figure.

True science no longer exists thanks to the left.

BMI is a decent starting point for health for the general population. Obviously more needs to be done to look at health than just BMI and it clearly skews athletes and lifters towards obese. Not perfect, but a decent starting point for most people

What’s lizzo’s bmi?

I don't understand... Why go to a doctor if you know more than them?

BMI is sort of like 'calories in vs calories out' - it doesn't take macro nutrients into account and how they're metabolized or how ones body composition changes by emphasizing protein over carbs. Likewise, BMI isn't a perfect metric of wellness, but it works pretty well.

Damn what's next. The stethoscope was not intended to listen to heart rate

🤣🤣🤣 health was never made for humans.. it’s all made up. Science is not a real thing

BMI invented '200 years ago by a Belgian mathematician'. 'BMI does not come from science or medicine,' said Dr. Fatima Stanford, an obesity medicine specialist and the equity director of the endocrine division at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mathematics is not a science now?

WD-40 Wasn't meant to be used almost exclusively as a lubricant yet here we are.

Critics? Wonder what their BMI is?

NBC encourage bad health. Kanye exposing fake news

Lol, cry the people who can’t even see the number on the scale.

What in the suck is wrong with people. Obesity is a major health issue.

HAHA. all the “trust the science” fatties now hate the science! Maybe lose some weight tubbies!!!!

our doctor has advised we drop our bmi but so far nobody has made us a good offer that matche's our valuation

BMI is garbage, it is also racist AF..

Time to let the doctors decide what’s best instead of insurance companies.

'Critics say'. And so? Our country has a warped sense of what is a healthy weight anyway. Take a look around you.

What gets better mileage? An Empty Semi truck or one with an over filled Container? This isn't hard to figure out.

I can't retweet this because you wussed out right at the end

Neither does abortion. Critics could focus on more important issues like dealing with the obesity epidemic. Its a fact that BMIs in the overweight & obesity areas are associated with higher mortality.

Cc MaintenancePod

Time to change the definition of fat and overweight.

It is just one tool in the the overall toolbox to evaluate health and fitness. I have a BMI of 28 which is nearly obese but I am very active and have a VO2 max of 48 which is in the top 20% for my age and a resting heart rate of 42. For Me BMI is inaccurate.

BMI is a quick way to check whether someone is considered overweight. It's not a perfect test but perfect tests require tools most people don't have access to. It IS however right a lot more times than it's wrong. People just don't like to admit they're fat. Myself included.

I'd thought it was pimped so the morbidly obese wouldn't feel so badly about being morbidly obese (kind of like changing clothing sizes, e.g., 14 is the new 24).

Is this the excuse for remaining obese?

Being fat isn’t healthy. You can use whatever metric you want, but the fact of the matter doesn’t change.

Correct. It's supposed to be body fat percentage, not BMI, as the true marker of health. But that requires taking several tape measurements and doing calculations, or getting trained on use of calipers, or gaining access to an expensive ultrasound cavitation device

Fat is healthy!!!! We should all be morbidly obese and completely dependent on others!! Big pharma is our friend!!

Either do mask mandates

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