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The Drawbacks of Using BMI The BMI formula is so simple, it’s easy to use by just about everyone. However, it’s that simplicity that makes it inaccurate because it only takes into account your height and weight. Whether you’re overweight or not requires much.BMI’s Drawbacks Your BMI doesn’t reveal anything about the makeup of your body, such as how much muscle vs. fat you have.
That’s why conclusions based only on this number can be misleadin.BMI and health If a person has a high BMI, they are likely to have a high proportion of body fat, especially if their BMI falls in the obesity category. However, it is possible to be “overweight”.
Drawbacks to using BMI for measuring health. 1. BMI was never created for or meant to be used on individuals. It was originally created in the 19th century by a 2. BMI is only concerned with height and weight.
It doesn’t factor in muscle mass, hydration status or bone density, and 3. BMI.BMI Mistakes Muscle for Fat. BMI uses your weight in the formula but doesn’t distinguish if that weight comes from an abundance of fat or from lean tissue. Athletes and gym enthusiasts who carry a great deal of muscle may seem heavy for their height or overall siz.A BMI outside the “normal” range (18.5-25) is considered less healthy, and an indicator of greater health risks.
While the BMI has countless failings as a reliable tool, racism is chief among them, said Sabrina Strings, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.Drawbacks of BMI While BMI can estimate whether a person’s weight is moderate, it has some limitations. While it correlates with body fat levels, BMI.
These policies of using the BMI to determine health cause BMI to be used to say I have a preexisting condition. I was turned down for health insurance before the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Life insurance companies are charging me more for life insurance because I was considered unhealthy. Once again, this is an example of the “Black Tax.
Disadvantages of BMI Testing Your body weight includes a number of components, such as muscle mass, fat, internal organs, water and skeletal weight. BMI does not differentiate between these.For example, excess abdominal fat that pushes your waistline to larger than 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men ups your risk of obesity-related diseases, according to the National Institutes of Health, regardless of your BMI.
The middle range brings out one of the main problems with using BMI as a standard definition of health: it is only based on weight and height. Lopez-Jimenez said many things factor into a person’s weight, like muscle mass, bones, fat and water, and that can mean two people with the same BMI have vastly different body types and health levels.The clinical limitations of BMI should be considered.
BMI is a surrogate measure of body fatness because it is a measure of excess weight rather than excess body fat. Factors such as age, sex, ethnicity, and muscle mass can influence the relationship between BMI and body fat.A person is considered underweight if the BMI is less than 18.5. As with most measures of health, BMI is not a perfect test.
For example, results can be thrown off by pregnancy or high muscle mass, and it may not be a good measure of health for children.The problem stems from the fact that BMI is an inaccurate measure of health, Ahima said. For one thing, BMI doesn’t take into account fat, and it doesn’t indicate where fat is distributed on the.
Unfortunately, such is the case with the Body Mass Index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio used by health care providers, insurance companies and the scientific community.There is growing criticism for the use of BMI. For example, it doesn’t take body composition (fat versus muscle) into account, and a person’s weight doesn’t correlate.
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6 comments
Thank you for this Video.
Pls refer my findings once
https://www.nursesclass.com/2019/12/how-bmi-is-calculated-bmi-formula-bmi-ranges.html
Social media, big corporations with their processed and artificial foods, the slick advertising purchased by these corporations, upbringing, and the corrosive media, would cover 75 percent of the issue.
It’s not the BMI, it’s the milk and eggs that you eat every day that is going to stop your heart one day, it’s very high in cholesterol and these guys are programed to mislead people about the stupid BMI crap, I am 1.96m tall, 36yo 160kg weight and I can still satisfy my wife in bed, I don’t suffer from hypertension or diabetes and I’m very active, my heart is fine because I don’t eat those to poisonous foods, thank me later. ��
So in other words NO the BMI is not accurate and is basically useless. Got it.
BMI ignores body composition.
Fail.
It’s not fucking rocket-science, is it.
Case closed.