BMI is trash': Why doctors say it's time to ditch body mass index
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BMI is trash': Why doctors say it's time to ditch body mass index
Fifty years after the World Health Organization, insurance companies and even schools started using BMI, it's facing a moment of reckoning
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BMI is trash': Why doctors say it's time to ditch body mass index
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