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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Was there ever a scientific proof about the BMI scale that it worked? If so in the term of science how come it got discredited so fast? And why not faster?

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Was there ever a scientific proof about the BMI scale that it worked? If so in the term of science how come it got discredited so fast? And why not faster?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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    It’s just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat. There are a few others, such as the Navy method, that are more or less accurate for different body types

    The current state of the art is DXA scanning:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5659281/

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