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"We’re a society obsessed with numbers, and no more so than when managing our
health.
We use smartwatches to count steps and track our daily activity, creating
scores for our fitness, and monitor our heart rate and sleep quality to measure
our health and well-being.
Doctors can be just as obsessed with numbers, relying on measurements and
equations to create scores for our health, one of the most popular of which is
the Body Mass Index (BMI).
But BMI – a measure of the relationship between your weight and height – is
increasingly under scrutiny. More and more experts are questioning its accuracy
and health practitioners’ fixation on using it as a single indicator of health
and healthy weight.
Here’s everything you need to know about BMI – and why using it as the sole
measure of your health is nonsense, starting with a quick history lesson."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
