Bye-bye, BMI
Jul 02, 2018
1 minute
BY MICHAEL FRANK
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WHY ARE WE STILL USING an almost 200-year-old formula to determine who’s fit or fat?
We’re talking, of course, about the body mass index, or BMI, developed in 1832 by a social scientist to explain variations in humans’ shapes
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