It can be a helpful health measure for large groups of people, but it won’t tell you much about yourself.
There are few single measures in health care that seem to carry as much weight as body mass index, or BMI. We encounter it not just at doctor’s offices, but with online calculators and smart scales, at gyms and even when determining eligibility for the Covid vaccine.
Alice Callahan discusses the true usefulness of BMI with a variety of expert opinions in a recent article in The New York Times.
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