Thursday, March 10, 2016

Settling the BMI issue

Body Mass Index is highly misunderstood. It seems like a lot of people are using it to determine if they're overweight and then you have a group saying BMI is worthless.

They're both wrong.

BMI was created to be used on a population level, to see the weight status of large groups of people. It's too crude to be of any use for individuals though, so you really shouldn't use it for yourself.

For actual population studies though, BMI is a great tool. So to say that it's completely useless is missing the point.

I wrote about this recently (What is BMI and why should you not worry?) but thought it'd be fitting to share this conclusion here too. :)

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