“BMI… was originally studied in a very narrow section of the human species… white middle-aged men… it doesn’t tell you anything about your health.”

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Stated that BMI is an outdated and insufficient definition of obesity because it was derived from a narrow demographic (white middle-aged men) and does not reflect health risk

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