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Nearly 70% of US adults meet new definition of obesity
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medicalxpress.com
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bikenaga
53 days ago
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bikenaga
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Original article: "Implications of a New Obesity Definition Among the All of Us Cohort" -
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
TimorousBestie
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Critics of BMI have been saying that it doesn’t capture many forms of having excess fat, and of course it was never intended to measure excess fat anyway.
It’s cargo cult science that even the new definition perpetuates.
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