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A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough. Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said. A ...

When you go in for a wellness exam, oftentimes the first things the medical assistant does is take your height and weight. With this data, the computer spits out your body mass index (BMI) number.

The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest models can track muscle mass and body fat percentage, as well as weight (Alex Lee/The Independent) The Independent and ...

According to Dr Paloschi, weight isn't the key metric for health; body composition and metabolic health matter more, ...