I Knew It! BMI My Eye!

Angie SzumlinskiNews

I recently read a “tweet” that said “BMI is trash. Full stop!” I thought I was dreaming but true, it was posted on twitter, and it received 26,500 likes and almost 3,000 retweets! The idea of BMI was conceived in 1832 by Belgian anthropologist and mathematician Adophe Quetelet. 1832? Haven’t we learned more about our bodies than we knew in …

Freshman 15 or COVID 19?

Angie SzumlinskiNews

Weight is a clinically relevant health outcome that is independently associated with all-causemortality. It is also a helpful proxy for physical activity, another measurement associated withall-cause mortality. In analyzing weight trends around initial “stay in place” (SIP) orders, therewas a significant increase in weight over the post-SIP period at a rate of roughly a pound and ahalf weight gain per …