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- <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>The BMI myth? You might be fatter than you think
- <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>We may be fatter than we think, researchers report
- <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Reliance on BMI understates the true obesity crisis, experts say
| Posted: 03 Apr 2012 07:41 PM PDT In a study published in the journal PLoS, researchers estimated that 39 per cent of participants who were classified as overweight by their BMI were actually obese |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT A new study finds that the widely used body mass index, or BMI, may be understating obesity in many people. As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body mass index, the 180-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be incorrectly classifying about half of women and just over 20% of men as being the picture ... |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:18 PM PDT As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body-mass index, the 200-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be misclassifying roughly half of women and just over 20% of men as healthy when their body-fat composition suggests they are obese. |
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