American Council on Science and Health

For Measuring Obesity, The Tape Measure Replaces the Scale

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...
UUHC Health Feed

Goodbye BMI: Doctors Suggest a New Approach to Calculate Your Health

The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.
Yahoo

BMI alone is a poor indicator of health, the AMA says. These metrics may be better.

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Business Insider

WiMi Developed a New Deep Learning Method for BMI Signals with Data Enhancement

BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WIMI) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that a ...