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Rejected petition Make the NHS use a more accurate tool than BMI

BMI has been proven to be a highly inaccurate tool to measure accurate body fat and indentify people as overweight without allowing for body composition such as muscle.
Children as young as 4 are being classed as obese despite their physical fitness.

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Numerous studies have proven ineffective;

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/bmi-stop-measuring-weight-height-health-measure-fitness-fat-a7894951.html%3famp

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--dub020316.php

https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo200887

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/

There are 100s of studies.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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