By: Melissa Healy
Researchers are nurturing a growing suspicion that body mass index, the height-weight calculation that distinguishes those with “normal healthy weight” from the overweight and obese, is not the whole picture when it comes to telling who is healthy and who is not. Two new studies drive that point home and underscore that BMI offers an incomplete picture of an individual’s health.
Fitness matters, as does fatness. And the BMI is an imperfect measure of both. [Read more…]
Source: Los Angeles Times