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Why body type standards are misleading in assessing health

The Podcast by KevinMD

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Body Type Standards Are Wrong in Measuring Health

"We're not necessarily knocking the three bi type standards, which should be our B bi type one, the BMI and the BMR. We're simply saying that the research data is very clear now that those standards are not accurate," he says. "If we can better understand what skinny fat is and begin to incorporate that into the three currently accepted bi-type standards, we can make them more accurate."

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