The BMI is outdated, simplistic and discriminatory

There is a systemic mistreatment of those deemed to be overweight, and using an out-of-date tool only exacerbates this prejudice..
The precursor to the Body Mass Index (BMI) scale was invented more than 150 years ago by a Belgian statistician, Adolphe Quetelet. Named the Quetelet Index, it was designed as a sociological rather th

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