Body Mass Index

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Is your BMI a lie? Formula that calculates healthy weight is flawed, says ... - New York Daily News
<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Mathematicians Find We've Been Calculating Body Mass Index Wrong - Business Insider
<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Are you fatter (or thinner) than you think? - Independent Online
<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A BMI Referendum - Wall Street Journal (blog)
<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A few extra kilos won't hurt you - US govt study - National Business Review

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Is your BMI a lie? Formula that calculates healthy weight is flawed, says ... - New York Daily News

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 01:12 PM PST

New York Daily News

Is your BMI a lie? Formula that calculates healthy weight is flawed, says ...
New York Daily News
The current BMI calculation gives tall people the short end of the stick, an Oxford mathematician says. Body mass index, or BMI, has long been used as the quickest measure of whether a person's weight falls within the normal range for their height.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Mathematicians Find We've Been Calculating Body Mass Index Wrong - Business Insider

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:14 AM PST

The Voice of Russia

Mathematicians Find We've Been Calculating Body Mass Index Wrong
Business Insider
Mathematicians found the formula used to calculate body mass index (BMI) has made tall people more overweight and those vertically challenged not fat enough. They argued it did not take into account a person's weight tends to grow with their height ...
Body mass index formula not correct The Voice of Russia
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Are you fatter (or thinner) than you think? - Independent Online

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 05:31 AM PST

Independent Online

Are you fatter (or thinner) than you think?
Independent Online
Mathematician Nick Trefethen believes the body mass index formula traditionally used to work out if someone is overweight is flawed and he has come up with his own. London - It is something of a low blow for the vertically challenged. Those who are ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A BMI Referendum - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:36 PM PST

Wall Street Journal

A BMI Referendum
Wall Street Journal (blog)
However, he acknowledges the usefulness of having "a one-number summary that is simple to calculate and it is not clear that there is a better summary than BMI — at least based on using only height and weight." Some researchers advocate supplementing ...
The Skinny on Obesity: Part I Chapelboro.com
Anemia in relation to body mass index and waist circumference among chinese ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>A few extra kilos won't hurt you - US govt study - National Business Review

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 02:09 PM PST

New York Daily News