Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It needs to change, panel says.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
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Push to ditch BMI as sole obesity measure to end 'unnecessary' weight-loss jabs
A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - says a 'radical overhaul' is needed in how ...
You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI 'wrong'
Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the ...
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You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'
Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible ... Some 29 per cent of adults and one in ten children are obese by the time they start secondary school, according ...
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Identifying and assessing overweight, obesity and central adiposity
Use clinical judgement when interpreting BMI below the 91st centile, especially the healthy weight category in BMI charts because a child or young person in this category may nevertheless have central ...
Medscape15d
Docs Worry Not Enough Known About GLP-1s and Teens
Eighty percent of doctors in a Medscape survey answered no when asked, “Is enough known about obesity meds’ risk to ...
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Pediatric Asthma Monitoring Recommended by Guidelines Often Not Provided
Most children with asthma in the UK don’t regularly receive guideline-recommended monitoring; when they do, exacerbations are ...
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How to Calculate Your BMI (Body Mass Index)
The following handy reference charts can help you find your BMI based on your height and weight. There is also a reference chart for children 2 years and over. The optimum range for a healthy BMI is ...