Some People With BMIs Categorizing Them As Overweight Or Obese May Be Quite Healthy, Study Suggests.

reports in “Science Now” a new study published online Feb. 4 in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that “some 54 million Americans who are labeled as obese or overweight according to their body mass index [BMI] are,” upon “a closer look, actually healthy.” The study’s findings “reveal that employers could potentially saddle people with unfairly high health insurance costs based on a deeply flawed measure of actual health.” Shots” blog, physicians “contend that BMI’s usefulness ends at a rough indication that a patient should be checked for things like high blood pressure or cholesterol.” BMI was not invented as an “individual health metric.” Professional athletes, for example, “often have BMIs that could get them in trouble with a workplace wellness plan,” and “that mismatch between BMI and health is true not just for athletes,” the study found. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bmi-does-not-measure-health-20160204-story.html