From Medical Daily?..
About two thirds of all the adults in the United States are overweight and about a third are obese. Many experts believe that the standard measurement to determine obesity, the body mass index, is flawed as it doesn?t differentiate between fat and muscle. Researchers from City College of New York have developed a new measure of obesity that beats the BMI in predicting a person?s risk of early death.
?One criticism leveled at BMI is that it doesn?t distinguish muscle and fat mass, so that it doesn?t tell you if you have too much fat,? said Dr. Nir Krakauer, assistant professor of civil engineering in CCNY?s Grove School of Engineering, and co-author of the study.
In other words, if you are a man standing 6 feet tall and follow a healthy diet and in a habit of regular exercise then, although you might weigh as much as your couch potato neighbor who eats all day, you are not obese. This is because you have more muscle than fat in your body. However, BMI reading for you and your neighbor will be the same because muscle weighs more than fat.
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