Is Your Weight Healthy? BMI Alone Can’t Answer That Question

It’s the main calculation used to assess healthy body weight and helps determine eligibility for in-demand GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. It’s also imprecise at best, misleading at worst, say doctors.

Body-mass index, commonly called BMI, is a ratio of height to weight that is used to classify people as being at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. One of its biggest flaws is