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If you’ve ever been to the doctor, you’ve likely been told by a health professional what your BMI is. If your BMI was “too high”, my guess is you were told you need to lose weight. Doesn’t matter if all other health markers were perfect—if that one number was off, you were told to fix it.

The terms of healthy, overweight, and obese are unfortunately based on the BMI scale, which is not an accurate measure of health at all. Let’s talk more about why this form of measurement can cause more harm than good.

Read the article associated with this episode here.

TOPICS COVERED 👇 

• Defining BMI [1:48]
• What BMI is missing [4:52]
• What we should look at to measure health status [8:30]
• Research studies and BMI [9:08]
• How BMI was created [13:11]
• When the BMI threshold changed [17:39]
• Remember this next time the BMI chart is brought into your life [21:48]

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