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Re:Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI... by The_Colonel on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:53AM (#37048990)
BMI is often inadequate to evaluate an individual, but it has proven effective for measuring across larger sample size, since its coarseness will swing both ways and more or less cancel out.
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Re:Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI... by beezle on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:04AM (#37049131)
Spot on. And let's be honest even at the individual level - you know whether your BMI is "high" because you are a muscular jock or just an average joe that (over)eats the wrong things and is a couch potato (same probably applies to the ultra-lean runner types on the low side).
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Re:Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI... by makeitdouble on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:01AM (#37049095)
How do you measure effectiveness ? I am under the impression we have very few (any?) large scale intervention that have an objective positive effect, I'd be glad to know more.
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