Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 08:17
in Health & Medicine
Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s height and weight, has effectively become a proxy for whether a person is considered healthy. Many U.S. companies use their employees’ BMIs as a factor in determining workers’ health care costs. And people with higher BMIs could soon have to pay higher […]