http://www.marksdailyapple.com/worker-bees/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:55:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/worker-bees/#comment-483 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Los Buzz Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:33:09 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/worker-bees/#comment-483 [...] Science Daily reports that the BMI is a bad idea. We’ve been saying that for some time. And it’s not like we’re alone in this - a lot of health experts have been expressing frustration with reliance on the BMI. Some problems: the BMI does not take bone density, muscle mass or fat percentages into account. And it’s generous to a seriously scary degree. For example, a woman who is 5′7″ and 150 pounds is just as healthy, lean and fit as a woman who is 5′7″ and 120 pounds, if you follow the metrics of the BMI. Hmm… [...] [...] Science Daily reports that the BMI is a bad idea. We’ve been saying that for some time. And it’s not like we’re alone in this - a lot of health experts have been expressing frustration with reliance on the BMI. Some problems: the BMI does not take bone density, muscle mass or fat percentages into account. And it’s generous to a seriously scary degree. For example, a woman who is 5′7″ and 150 pounds is just as healthy, lean and fit as a woman who is 5′7″ and 120 pounds, if you follow the metrics of the BMI. Hmm… [...]

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