This means that many people with apparently healthy BMI will actually be living with high body fatness without being aware of it, and so be at risk of the serious health consequences without realising it. Our research aimed to assess how problematic BMI is when used as a proxy for high ...
One tiny thing though – if the thing you’re measuring against is fairly arbitrary, I am not seeing it do much good. Our beloved BMI is such an arbitrary measure. Yes, it shows a relation between our height and weight, which is better than using just weight – but it is totally made...
Medical school taught me that “obesity” is a cause of morbidity and mortality, and that weight loss is its cure. I recorded patients’ BMIs and counselled them on weight-loss strategies, believing that I was helping them.
How problematic this is becomes clearer when looking at how AI (respectively the tech corporations who control AI) is transforming contemporary societies more and more into a rule of code. While regulation by AI is manifold, recent developments in Legal Tech and the widespread belief in Tech ...
While it's a simple and useful screening tool when looking at groups of people, it's not a good marker of individualhealth. This is because BMI is a measure of our height and our weight, and the ratios of their combination. But weight alone doesn't discriminate between a kilogram of fa...
Weight and BMI are not what we should be looking at.” She adds that the onus of health shouldn't be placed on an individual, especially a child. "This is a systemic problem, not an individual issue, Many people in our community who have struggled with eating disorders or who are in ...
Even that hernia check for boys is problematic (not AS severe, obviously- but still a point). Not really all that plausible that someone’s intestines are going to be in their nutsack without their knowing it, boys are pretty astute about that region. Reply Elizabeth (Aust) May 25, ...
but we’re not there yet in terms of what those screens look like. The goal of intervention is clear, though: As Volkow puts it in her JAMA Psychiatry commentary, we want “to alert people to problematic patterns of drug or alcohol use that do not (yet) meet the threshold of addiction...
While BMI can be helpful, it has significant limitations. In 2023, the AMA amended its view of this tool, noting that it’s dated, flawed, and has a problematic history. This is because BMI does not consider several important factors contributing to obesity, including race and ethnicity, age...