Detail from an Ancient Greek red figure amphora of Theseus killing Procrustes, Louvre Museum. Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain Procrustes (literally the ...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) has lots of critics, but is still widely used by dieters and health care providers; discovered in 1832 this ratio was supposed to be part of the most objective analysis of ...

We’ve known for some time that the body mass index (BMI) is an inaccurate measuring stick for assessing someone’s weight and associated health. But it continues to be the go-to tool for medical ...

The body mass index can’t tell us if we’re healthy. Here’s what we should use instead BMI was initially called the Quetelet Index and was never meant to be used as a medical assessment tool.

• The Quetelet index, as it was originally called, was designed as a tool to study health in populations – not individuals. • The unintended use of the BMI to classify a person’s weight status came in ...

The body mass index (BMI) or Quetelet Index is a quotient of body mass which takes into account both height and weight measured as kg/m2, and is used as a simple means of classifying sedentary ...