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Obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight: Could the BMI scale be the problem?

Fit but fat? 54 million Americans are overweight but still pretty healthy, researchers claim

Maintain a healthy weight with organic food and exercise to lower your risk of these 10 cancers

New study links fast food to increased weight

Gaining weight between pregnancies could lead to pregnancy complications (press ...

The BMI illusion: Why your “healthy weight” might be a mirage

September 17, 2025 -

One-size-fits-all BMI test encourages women to be frail and weak

The body mass index (BMI) is the medical world’s version of a one-size-fits-all poncho: technically functional, but laughably ill-fitting for most of the people forced to wear it. Developed in the 1830s by a Belgian mathematician (not a physician) named Adolphe Quetelet, the formula was never meant to diagnose individual health. Its purpose was to track weight trends ...

AMA now says body mass index (BMI) is RACIST – are they calling non-white people fat?

June 25, 2023 -

According to the AMA, which recently issued a press release about this "important" matter, the BMI is too simple in that it uses height and weight as the basic metric for determining whether or not a person is overweight or obese. Some races and ethnicities have endured "historical harm" based on this metric, so now it must be scrapped.

The AMA contends that the BMI has been used throughout history for "racist exclusion." Its cutoffs are also "based on ...

Obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight: Could the BMI scale be the problem?

June 09, 2016 - Obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight: Could the BMI scale be the problem?

Thursday, June 09, 2016 by: L.J. Devon, Staff WriterTags: BMI, obesity, measurement standards

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Prevent diabetes and heart disease by cutting at least 300 calories every day, regardless of your BMI

April 19, 2020 -

The researchers found that cutting around 300 calories a day for two years significantly improved already good levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and other biomarkers in healthy adults.

The researchers, led by William Kraus of Duke University School of Medicine, compared the biomarkers for metabolic syndrome between a group with a normal calorie diet and a group of 143 study participants who agreed to reduce their daily caloric intake. Their results showed ...

Researchers warn BMI is misleading; body fat percentage is far more accurate in predicting heart disease and death

July 03, 2025 -

For decades, doctors and governments have relied on BMI, a crude calculation of height and weight, to classify obesity and predict disease risk. But new research confirms what health freedom advocates have warned for years: BMI is a dangerously misleading metric that fails to accurately assess mortality risk. A groundbreaking study published in Annals of Family Medicine reveals that body fat percentage, measured through bioelectrical impedance ...

The mental toll of being overweight: Having a positive outlook and a healthy BMI often go hand-in-hand

February 08, 2019 -

Researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Fudan University in Shanghai, China concluded that body mass index (BMI) has an effect on physical and mental health – especially among college students, who go through everyday bouts of anxiety and depression and often neglect to exercise and devote time to physical self-care.

According to U-M School of Kinesiology associate professor of health and fitness Weiyun Chen, both a positive outlook in life and ...

Short term lemon honey juice fasting can be an effective way for healthy individuals to reduce BMI, fat levels in the blood

March 23, 2018 -

For their study, published in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, the team recruited 50 healthy individuals (32 females and 18 males) between 18 to 29 years of age. Before the participants went through the four-day fast, their body compositions and lipid profiles were assessed. Body composition is the ratio of body fat and fat-free mass, or lean tissue. The lipid profile is a medical screening tool for lipid (e.g., cholesterol and triglycerides) abnormalities.

As ...

How alive are your cells? New cell scale measures how much “life” weighs; the BMI scale is really out of date now

November 14, 2017 -

The body is made up of trillions of cells and potentially trillions of microbial cells. The weight and life of those cells fluctuates in accordance with changes in the cell cycle and changes of the human microbiome. For example, exercise boosts the total number and diversity of gut microbe cells; antibiotics destroy these good microbe cells. These fluctuations in cell weight, when multiplied by the trillions, can alter the weight of the total person, moment to moment. Cells ...

Explaining the obesity paradox: It’s muscle mass, not fat, that helps you live longer

June 03, 2018 -

However, a study indicates that the obesity paradox can somehow be explained by one factor. Specifically, a person's muscle mass.

The researchers who spearheaded the study took note of an individual's body mass index (BMI) and muscle mass, and they determined that the risk of death due to any cause was higher among people with various BMI levels and low muscle mass, unlike those who had more muscle mass and the same BMI level.BMI ...

Extra Pounds Mean Higher Health Costs (press release)

September 13, 2006 - Extra Pounds Mean Higher Health Costs (press release)

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionLed by Feifei Wang, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, the researchers used a database of nearly 36,000 auto workers and their spouses to analyze the relationship between body weight and health care costs. Using height and weight data, the researchers calculated each subject's body mass index (BMI), a standard measure of ...

Always eat breakfast on time, especially if you have diabetes

May 25, 2018 -

Surprisingly, they found an unlikely culprit between the two factors – late breakfast times. "Breakfast time mediates the association between morningness-eveningness preference and BMI," the researchers wrote.

In particular, obesity – the state of having a BMI of 30 and higher – is common in people with Type 2 diabetes, and having an evening preference has been identified as a risk factor for obesity. However, there isn't a lot of information on how these ...

Obesity causes depression, concludes “strongest evidence yet”

July 25, 2019 -

The researchers used a genomic approach…

For their study, the researchers gathered genetic data from the U.K. Biobank, a study conducted from 2006 to 2010 that involved 500,000 individuals aged 37 to 73 years. The researchers looked at data from 48,000 people with depression and compared them to medical and genetic data from 290,000 people born between 1938 and 1971, who served as controls.

The researchers used a genomic approach called Mendelian randomization to test for ...

New study links fast food to increased weight

January 22, 2007 - New study links fast food to increased weight

Monday, January 22, 2007 by: M.T. WhitneyTags: fast food, BMI, obesityA collection of nearly 3,400 young adults were tested for a decade, and with each fast food meal they ingested, their body mass index (BMI) went up by a significant percentage, said Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, one of the lead scientists for the study.It�s �enough of an effect to take you from being ...

Maintaining a healthy weight as you age is about more than quality of life; it can save you a LOT of money

August 24, 2018 -

The team studied the correlation between BMI and how much a person paid for healthcare every year. After extensive cross-analyzing and accounting for extraneous variables, the researchers saw that those with a lower body mass index saved more money because they did not have to spend for medications or procedures related to obesity.

Broken down even further, the study highlighted that a 20-year-old adult who went from obese to overweight (or a BMI of ...

Being overweight as a teen associated with premature death in adulthood (press release)

September 20, 2006 - Being overweight as a teen associated with premature death in adulthood (press release)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutrition"Our findings add to studies on overweight in middle-aged and older populations by providing insight into the impact of adolescent overweight on adult mortality," said Rob van Dam, a research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and lead author of the study.Some previous studies had ...

Study: Married couples share the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes

August 12, 2018 -

The study, which was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University in Denmark, found an association between the body mass index (BMI) of one spouse and the other spouse's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

"We have discovered that you can predict a person's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes based on his or her partner's BMI. This means that you can tell whether a person has a heightened risk or not on the ...

Cancer loves fat: Almost 800,000 new cases a year are attributed to diabetes and being overweight in a recent study

January 07, 2019 -

For the study, the researchers collected data on the occurrence of 12 kinds of cancer from 175 countries in 2012 and combined it with data on high body mass index (BMI) and on diabetes. A high BMI was defined as a BMI greater than or equal to 25 kg/m2. Then, they categorized the data sets by age group and sex to consider the age differences using diabetes and BMI data from 2002 to measure cancer incidence in 2012 caused by these risks. They ...

Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people (press release)

October 06, 2006 - Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people (press release)

Friday, October 06, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionWhereas justifiable attention is given to the increasing problem of obesity in the general population, far less is known about the relationship between obesity and mortality in older people, or how mortality risk should be estimated. The excess health risks associated with having a high ...

Time to lose those pounds: Study find that EXCESS WEIGHT increases risk for 18 cancers

July 24, 2023 -

The WHO researchers noted their findings in a cohort study of 2.6 million adults published in the Nature Communications, adding that some of the cancers were not previously associated to weight as a risk factor. They looked at data from these individuals who were aged 40 and younger who were cancer-free in 2009. Using advanced methodologies, they examined the body mass index (BMI) scores throughout the lifetime of people involved with the study – instead of focusing on ...