The BMI can give a false impression of the nature of health. There are more important metrics.
A study on the ratio of body fat mass and lean mass to total mortality, published this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is freely available to all, and the results confirm what most Breaking Muscle readers already know, BMI is not a good indicator of wellbeing or physical fitness . In the study, higher fat mass was associated with a 50% higher risk of death compared to lower fat mass.
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