BMI may not be telling the whole truth

The measurement is used to determine weight health, which then helps determine susceptibility to certain diseases. But a number of experts caution that the tool is fairly imprecise and often wrong.Sometime later this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release its latest accounting of the nation's weight problem, as measured by the body mass index, or BMI.

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