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Why body type standards are misleading in assessing health

The Podcast by KevinMD

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What Are Some of Your Take-Home Messages to the Kevin and the Audience?

"I have dealt with skinny fat my entire life and I have had a lot of people telling me well why does it matter about my diet exercise and lifestyle if I am obese or if I'm normal weight obese?" "Even getting within your BMI is vital even though we know that it's not necessarily accurate it is a standard that we need because we believe in scientific standards," he says. 'Please still utilize those standards as they are still valid even though they need to be improved like so many other things in our world that are still valid but need improved'

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