Obesity and overweight crisis keeps getting worse
The numbers tell a stark story. One in eight people worldwide now live with obesity, and the rate has more than doubled among adults since 1990. What was once framed as a problem tied to wealthier nations has become a global pattern, touching nearly every country and crossing every income level. How obesity is measured […]
Body mass index has 4 serious limitations that every patient should understand right now
Body mass index is the health metric that has been doing the most work in clinical medicine for the longest time with the least justification for that level of trust. Developed by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the 1830s as a statistical tool for describing population distributions, it was never designed as a clinical diagnostic […]