![]() ![]() ![]() And its reliability goes down from there. doesn't distinguish between fat or muscle or any of that stuff. ![]() So we're talking about, exclusively, the bodies of white western European men from closer to 200 than 100 years ago, and we have continued to use that. It was developed by a mathematician, statistician and astronomer, and he was working exclusively with data from French and Scottish military conscripts in the 1800s. The BMI was not developed by a healthcare provider. On the myth of the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a reliable indicator of health ![]() What kind of green spaces do you have in your neighborhood? What are your parents' income when you were born? What kind of neighborhood were you raised in? All of those have really powerful impacts on the size of our bodies, and none of those really have to do with our individual choices in adulthood. There are major contributing factors like genetics, environment, specific health conditions like polycystic ovarian syndrome and lymphedema – and social determinants of health. But researchers have been clear for years that our body size isn't solely or even primarily the result of our own choices. Some folks do choose fatness and some folks don't choose fatness. ![]()
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