BMI: What the Number Means and Where It Fails
Where BMI came from, why clinicians still use a 190-year-old formula, and the four groups it routinely misclassifies.
The formulas behind BMI, calories, macros and body composition, and what they can and cannot tell you.
Where BMI came from, why clinicians still use a 190-year-old formula, and the four groups it routinely misclassifies.
How to size a deficit against your own maintenance level, why the scale lies for a fortnight, and the signs you have cut too far.
The number came from a 1965 pedometer advert. The research since then points somewhere slightly different.