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469: Has the wellness industrial complex gone too far? | Maya Feller, R.D.

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Is BMI a Measure of Obesity?

"The clock is ticking for me. I'm going to race to get some more muscle mass because it's harder," he says. "I did one of those tests where you do the BMI, and my body fat was quite good but like by BMI, it was like 25." We're still not teaching people about nutrition or exercise, so we'll continue to see kids with comorbidities much earlier in life than if we addressed these issues before they were even born,. He adds: "It's children and children, what influences them ... It's their parents, it's their schools".

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