Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
A new report notes that the amount of belly fat a patient has is a more useful metric for determining obesity than ...
What Is Body Composition? What It Can Tell You—And How To Measure It
Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...
What is your body shape and what does it say about your health?
There’s no “perfect” or “better” body shape, experts agree — yet you still might find yourself wondering what your body shape ...
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Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
The report’s findings suggest that BMI — the measurement traditionally used by medical professionals to determine healthy weight ranges — does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of ...
What does being ‘fit’ actually mean? We took the test to find out
Keep pushing! Now the test really starts,” he yells. “Now the motivation has to come!” We pedal harder, inhale lungfuls of ...
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Want To Know If You’re Overweight? Forget BMI—Measure This, Says a Team of Experts
BMI is a 53-year-old metric that experts suggest needs an update—here's what they say is the more reliable way to determine ...
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What’s more useful than BMI? All you need to know about a 2000-year-old technique to measure body composition
While it’s true that fatter people typically have a higher BMI, it does not work well as a diagnostic ... weight measurements can then be used to calculate the buoyant force acting on the ...