During the 2024 Olympics, a player on the US women's rugby team, Alona Mar, got a ton of attention for talking about her body mass index.
I do have a BMI of 30.
Well, 29.3 to be more exact.
I've been considered overweight my whole life.
I remember vividly one time in high.
School I did turning the physical to.
The office and right at the bottom of the page it said overweight Miss Ma'am went on to win a bronze medal.
And also to illustrate the absurdity of bmi.
But doctors and insurance companies this number to make judgments about your health.
And then just yesterday, a global panel of experts advised that we measure obesity differently.
The relationship between diet and weight and health seems like it should be clear and knowable by this point, but it's really not.
Coming up on Today explained why the gospel on weight loss is always being rewritten and how medications have added a brand new chapter.
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I could catch anything sitting in this doctor's waiting room.
A kid just wiped his runny nose on my jacket and the guy next to me sitting in a pool of perspiration insists on sharing my armrest.
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Sumita Mukapadai is a writer and editor who was very anxious when she was hired as the executive editor of Teen Vogue back in 2018.