Doctors' simple 'string test' to see how healthy you are

A pair of doctors have revealed a simple trick that could be a better gauge of someone's health than the body mass index (BMI ...

Dr Mosley's simple test which is 'better' than BMI to work out how healthy you are

A pair of doctors have teamed up to show a simple trick which could be better tool to measure someone's health than body mass ...
WRAL

A high BMI may qualify you for a vaccine, but may not mean you're unhealthy. Here's how to check

With obesity a factor in Covid-19 vaccine eligibility, many Americans are scrambling to find out their body mass index, or BMI. But experts say the meaning behind those numbers -- and how to lower ...
Healio

AMA: Use other measures in addition to BMI when diagnosing obesity

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BMI does not differentiate body lean mass from body fat mass, nor does it represent all ethnic and racial groups ...
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Doctors urged to move beyond BMI alone as a health measure

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize a “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional ...