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2. 8 Tips to Help You Lower Your BMI Faster - AOL

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   A high BMI must be taken extremely seriously, as it can lead to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and cancer. That's why we spoke with experts who ...

3. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're ... - AOL

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   BMI wasn't meant to measure health when it was first developed. Kathrin Ziegler/Getty BMI is an arbitrary and outdated metric. When BMI was created, it had nothing to do with health.

4. BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say - AOL

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   A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index ...

5. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...

6. Body roundness index - Wikipedia

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   Compared to traditional metrics, such as the body mass index (BMI), (which uses weight and height), BRI may improve predictions of the amount of body fat and the volume of visceral adipose tissue. Despite its common use, BMI can misclassify individuals as obese because it does not distinguish between a person's lean body mass and fat mass ...

7. Obesity - Wikipedia

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   The healthy BMI range varies with the age and sex of the child. Obesity in children and adolescents is defined as a BMI greater than the 95th percentile. [276] The reference data that these percentiles are based on is from 1963 to 1994 and thus has not been affected by the recent increases in rates of obesity. [277]

8. A new definition of obesity goes beyond BMI. What this could ...

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   For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

9. Why BMI is not the obesity measurement we need - AOL

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   A big part of the problem is relying too much on body mass index (BMI), which is often used to define obesity as a BMI over 30 kilograms per square meter (kg/m²) for people of European descent.