06.26.2023 - By Matthea Rentea MD
Thinness equals health. There are generations of doctors that have been trained to believe this, and we have been indoctrinated by this concept for so long that it’s hard to believe anything else. One of the biggest contributing factors to this is the widespread adoption of the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a measure of health by the medical system.So where exactly does the BMI originate from and should we still be using it as a tool to assess someone’s health? To help me answer these important qu...