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Body mass index.(Letter to the editor)
When I saw "Dieting on a Budget" (February 2009) I was concerned: Body mass index calculations mass index calculations can be highly misleading. My BMI says I'm "obese," yet my body fat is a healthy 12 percent. Why? Because I have been a weight lifter for many years.
With more men taking up resistance training, plus all of the other individual variations that make the BMI ...
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