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 ...
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which would be classed as overweight and approaching obese. Although not a perfect measurement indicator, this BMI increase shows that obesity is rapidly and dangerously on the rise. Widespread obesity has numerous repercussions to not only theindividual, but the healthcare system and economic climate...
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.
BMI is calculated as patient weight measured in kilograms (kg) divided by the square of patient height measured in meters (m), expressed as kg/m2. This correlates with adiposity. Obesity, as defined by BMI, correlates with morbidity and mortality. At the low end of the BMI spectrum, ...
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...
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 ...
Unfortunately, narcissists are not capable of “getting it.” They do not see anything wrong or problematic with what they said or did. They do not believe their position needs improvement or modification. There is, therefore, no need to change their behavior or shift their understanding. ...
(2015a) who seem to argue its use is problematic because it is, in a sense, synthetic and therefore unrealistic. This paper begins with a brief discussion of the APC identification problem, before outlining our explanation for why the HAPC model produces the results that it does under ...
— body acceptance may help you start to realize, “Maybe I do have a problematic relationship with food, even if I'm not thin.” EH: What are some other barriers to better prevention and treatment of eating disorders for people in bodies of all sizes? SA: Depending on their diagnosis...