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Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that the widely used Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement is less sensitive to define obesity than we thought
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I thought this was known.
BMI was created as a statistical tool for comparing populations against one another. It works when all the various deviations from normal average out.
For individuals, it only works for someone of perfectly average height and build. The farther your height is from average, the more wrong BMI becomes.
