Don’t Use BMI as Reliable Measure of Health, Warns UCLA Study
5th February 2016
Body mass index (BMI) is not a reliable measure of health, according to a study which claims 47.4 per cent of Americans considered to be overweight are actually “perfectly healthy”.
For years BMI has been considered a direct indicator of a person’s health, even used by life insurance companies to determine eligibility, but new research suggests this is misleading.
A team of psychologists analysed the link between BMI and a number of other health markers, such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
They found that nearly half of the 24.4 million Americans considered to be “obese” are, in fact, healthy, as are the 19.8 million deemed “overweight”.
Hah!
February 5th, 2016 at 14:05
Not to be “Captain Obvious” here, but this is pretty easy to figure out. Every football player in the NFL would be considered obese if you use BMI.