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Why body type standards are misleading in assessing health

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The BMI Calculator

The BMI fails to calculate any form of skinny fat. It also fails to calculate excess muscle and muscle mass. How do we define skinny fat so that we can add into the BMI calculation? That's what we are working on in terms of our sciences. We would need an MRI machine or machines for this kind of research.

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