Body Mass Index Says Athletes Are Fat!
According the standard way of calculating whether or not a person is overweight, baseball stars Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds would be considered fat. That doesn’t sound right! And, in fact, it isn’t.
The Body Mass Index or BMI, used since the 1950s by doctors to calculate whether or not patients are overweight, has now been shown to be inaccurate. Didn’t we really sort of know that all along?
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October 14th, 2008 00:28
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