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Should You Care about BMI?
Description
In this week's episode, Bonnie goes solo to talk with you about Should you care about BMI?
She will touch on topics such as:
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What is BMI and how was it created?
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Why BMI is not a great tool to measure health
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How lowering the BMI standards was actually really sketchy & unethical
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We can't make assumptions about anyone's health based off their BMI
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Errors in a report from CDC not shared to the public about BMI.
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Health cannot be measured by whatever BMI category you are in!
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