14 Oct 2024

Why are we still using BMI if we know its flaws?

From Nights, 9:35 pm on 14 October 2024

The body-mass index is used to estimate your health and risk of heart disease. But the model, created close to 200 years ago by a Belgian statistician, is not a perfect diagnostic tool.

Emile Donovan is joined by Sir Jim Mann, professor of human nutrition and medicine at the University of Otago, and an expert in the field of obesity.

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