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Re:25% of U.S. adults are not active enough to protect their... by Nbox9 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:32AM (#30072890)
It’s well established that BMI doesn’t work well for diagnosing individuals but is a reliable and valid method for measuring obesity in populations. For individuals measuring body fat percentage is probably the most accurate measurement, but given the cost of reliable body fat percentage measurements, a scale, a mirror, and some honesty is what a person really needs.

I’m unsure I ever meet an adult that was obese on the BMI, was not obese by body fat percentage scale, and did not know BMI was inaccurate for them.

[0] CDC: BMI is not a valid diagnosis tool, but is generally correlated with body fat percentages. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/bmiforpactitioners.pdf

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Re:25% of U.S. adults are not active enough to protect their... by nradov on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:25PM (#30078285)
Most HN users can afford the cost of an annual DXA scan. It costs less than $100 to get an accurate body fat measurement.

The nice thing about DXA scans is that they can distinguish between visceral versus subcutaneous fat. For most medical conditions it's the visceral fat that's a real killer.

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