Is Your BMI 3D Lying To You?

The answer, says dr giles yeo, a neuroscientist at the university of cambridge and author of the book why calories dont count: How we got the science of weight loss wrong, lies in our genetics. The way that doctors judge how overweight we are, a measure called body mass index or bmi, is unreliable and needs to change, according to a group of 58 experts. For the longest time body mass index (bmi) has been the preferred way of determining if you have a healthy bodyweight or you are obese. Now a new report, published.