Essence Magazine:
By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 21, 2023
It’s not you, it’s BMI. On Tuesday, the American Medical Association (AMA), the country’s largest group of doctors, voted on a new policy that encourages doctors to avoid relying on body mass index (BMI “doesn’t actually measure fat mass, account for its distribution, or how those differ by age, gender, ethnicity, race, and how those differences affect health risks.”
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