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since 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 08:21 UTC

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28 days ago

I'm an A&E nurse and refused skinny jabs because of the side effects - now people are shocked by the even 'bigger risk' I took to lose 8st

found 2025 › May › 29 (Thu) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

With a BMI of almost 50, at 18st and a size 28, A&E nurse Rhianna Berry, 26, from Grantham, feared she was eating herself into an early grave, but didn't want to use slimming jabs.

4 months ago

Forget BMI - your 'body roundness index' says more about your health, use our calculator to measure yours

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 17:44 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

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While body mass index has been the go-to obesity measure for decades some experts say we should focusing on the fat in a particular part of our body.

Revealed: The £20 DIY heart checker which could prevent 136,000 deaths a year and save 20 minutes of GP time - and it uses a simple fingerprick test

found 2025 › Feb › 03 (Mon) @ 08:28 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The finger-prick test, which provides results within 10 minutes, provides users with a full cholesterol profile, BMI score, heart age and a 10-year risk assessment for heart attacks and strokes.

Lizzo shows off slimmed down body as she hits her weight loss goal: 'You can do anything you put your mind to'

found 2025 › Jan › 26 (Sun) @ 13:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Lizzo has reached a major milestone on her weight loss journey. The 36-year-old singer revealed she had lost 10 points on on the BMI scale and had also lost 16% overall body fat.

5 months ago

After call to overhaul diagnosis of obesity, how can you tell if your weight is a problem?

found 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 06:57 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Report by Lancet Commission says BMI should be used as ‘screening tool’ rather than determining factor

This week, doctors confirmed what many people have felt for a long time: the way we think about o…

Obesity needs new definition beyond BMI, says global report

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 10:39 UTC

a story from BBC ✅ › BBC News

There is a risk too many people are being diagnosed as obese, with weight-loss drugs in high demand.

Reframing obesity may end the diagnosis debate, but the health challenges remain

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Assessment of the condition could face overhaul, but governments, companies and communities still have work to do

Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI

Obesity is one of…

Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Lancet commission’s report calls for global shake-up and suggests looking at measures such as waist-to-height ratios and ill-health symptoms

Reframing obesity may end the diagnosis debate, but the hea…

You can be fat AND fit, obesity experts reveal as they say BMI needs to go: More than 15million Britons are 'wrongly labelled overweight'

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Huge numbers of the 17.6million Brits who have been told that they are overweight are in fact perfectly healthy, the scientists have revealed.

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