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A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.
However, BMI does not account for whether the excess weight is fat or muscle, and is not a measure of body composition. [2] For most people, however, BMI is an indication used worldwide to estimate nutritional status. Obesity is usually the result of consuming more calories than the body needs and not expending that energy by doing exercise.
A 2005 study showed that "a teenage girl’s odds for a romantic relationship… dropped 6 to 7 percent for every 1-point increase in her body mass index." [ 2 ] Gay , bisexual and transgender children are more likely to be obese, according to a 2020 study.
This pattern may lead to an "triangle"-shaped body or central obesity, and is more common in males than in females. Thus, the android fat distribution of men is about 48.6%, which is 10.3% higher than that of premenopausal women. [2] In other cases, an ovoid shape forms, which does not differentiate between men and women.
Last week, HuffPost published a story called, " Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong." In it, the author, Michael Hobbes, weaves science and people's stories together to challenge popular ...
What we eat and its nutritional content is now the most significant risk factor when looking at people’s health around the world.
In males, mean percentage body fat ranged from 23% at age 16–19 years to 31% at age 60–79 years. In females, mean percentage body fat ranged from 32% at age 8–11 years to 42% at age 60–79 years. But it is important to recognise that women need at least 9% more body fat than men to live a normal healthy life. [2]
Body fat-defined obesity was found in 50% of men and 62% of women. While BMI-defined obesity showed high specificity (95% for men and 99% for women), BMI showed poor sensitivity (36% for men and 49% for women). In other words, the BMI will be mostly correct when determining a person to be obese, but can err quite frequently when determining a ...