BMI & Its Replacement

[keangkong]

BMI is being de-emphasized in medicine. See Rubino, et al. (2025). Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 13(3), 221-262 [attached]; Fourman, et al. (2025). Implications of a New Obesity Definition Among the All of Us Cohort. JAMA Network Open 8(10), e2537619. Now the focus is on more on using other measures to determine whether people are overweight or obese. My recommendation is to use Waist to Height Ratio, which is one of the "anthropometric" measures recommended by Rubino in the Lancet. See Ashwell (Sep. 19, 2025). Waist-to-Height Ratio is the Best, Simple Indicator Health Risk - My Personal Journey. Nutrition Today [attached]. For how to use the Waist to Height Ratio, try this British site. It will tell you how to measure your waist. You can then enter your height and weight measurement into it in order to see how you score. Going to the site taught me that I was measuring my waist wrong.

 

[Benito Camela]

I use the navy calculator, it's quite common online and takes those into account. For women It uses hips too.

 

[randompersonrandom]

I'm mildly obsessed with WHR, but BMI has always been fine with me. It doesn't really matter what series of measurement they use, I'm clearly carrying too much fat when any measurement says I am, and I'm clearly carrying a normal amount of fat when any measurement says.