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We Asked a Doctor: Which Matters More for Your Health—VO2 Max or BMI?

Healthcare providers have long used the body mass index (BMI) to assess your health and predict your risk of disease, but it is a flawed measure that has been scrutinized over the years. VO2 max, a ...
AARP

What Your Waist Circumference Says About Your Health

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New Scientist

How worried should you be about your BMI?

I consider myself a healthy person. I eat plenty of fruit and veg, am obsessed with fibre, rock climb twice a week and try to squeeze in a lunchtime jog on the days I don’t. But when I recently ...
AARP

How Much Should I Weigh?

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STAT

Elevated BMI should not routinely be listed as a formal diagnosis

Gordon is an assistant professor of family medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Sathe is an internist and an assistant professor of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan ...
Healthline

Waist-to-Height Ratio Is Better Than BMI for Predicting Heart Disease Risk

Share on Pinterest A new study found that waist-to-height ratio was closely linked to heart disease risk than BMI or waist circumference. Ableimages/Getty Images A new study suggests your body shape ...
Digi Times

Innolux and NYCU unveil world's first mass-produced LC gradient index glasses

Taiwan's Innolux and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) have developed the world's first mass-producible liquid crystal gradient-index (LC gradient index) glasses, overcoming longstanding ...
CNN

BMI is B-A-D, a new study suggests. Here’s a better way to measure weight

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...
LinkedIn

Building a BMI Calculator in Rust

Today, I want to share a practical Rust program that calculates the Body Mass Index (BMI) based on user input. Rust is a systems programming language known for its performance, safety, and concurrency ...
Nature

Replacing body mass index with relative fat mass to accurately estimate adiposity

Body mass index (BMI), as its name indicates, is a marker of total body mass and not a specific marker of adipose tissue mass. Here, we position relative fat mass (RFM) as an ideal alternative to BMI ...
Nature

Pathways linking BMI trajectories and mental health in an adult population-based cohort: role of emotional eating and body dissatisfaction

Overweight and obesity are associated with poor mental health, and the association is bidirectional. Few studies have examined the association between weight change and mental health over time. We ...