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Move over, body mass index. Make room for roundness �X to be precise, the body roundness index.
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The body mass index, or BMI, is a ratio of height to weight that has long been used as a medical screening tool. It is one of the most widely used health metrics but also one of the most reviled, because it is used to label people overweight, obese or extremely obese.
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The classifications have been questioned by athletes including American Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher, whose BMI of 30 technically puts her on the cusp of obesity. ��But alas,�� she said on Instagram, addressing online trolls who tried to shame her about her weight, ��I��m going to the Olympics and you��re not.��
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Advocates for overweight individuals and people of color note that the formula was developed nearly 200 years ago and based exclusively on data from men, most of them white, and that it was never intended for medical screening.
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Even physicians have weighed in on the shortcomings of BMI. The American Medical Association warned last year that BMI is an imperfect metric that doesn��t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. It can��t differentiate between individuals who carry a lot of muscle and those with fat in all the wrong places.
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��Based on BMI, Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder would have been categorized as obese and needing to lose weight,�� said Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University. ��But as soon as you measured his waist, you��d see, ��Oh, it��s 32 inches.����
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So, welcome a new metric: the body roundness index. BRI is just what it sounds like �X a measure of how round or circlelike you are, using a formula that takes into account height and waist, but not weight.
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It��s a formula that may provide a better estimate of central obesity and abdominal fat, which are closely linked to an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, unlike fat stored on the buttocks and thighs.
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A paper published in JAMA Network Open in June was the latest study to report that BRI is a promising predictor of mortality. BRI scores generally run from 1 to 15; most people rank between 1 and 10.
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