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It's kinda like BMI. It tells you what you probably knew already just by looking at the subject.
by pizza 17y ago
It's kinda like BMI. It tells you what you probably knew already just by looking at the subject.
- carbocation 17y agoWould you have expected that people who are slightly overweight have a lower mortality than those who are of normal weight? Though BMI is imperfect, it does allow for interesting observations such as that. I would be very enthusiastic about a noninvasive, cheap, rapid, and accurate way of measuring whole-body (and especially abdominal) fat, of course!
- herdrick 17y agoYou're more right than you know. BMI and GI have exactly the same problem: they aren't used because they measure the right things very well but because they are easy to calculate.
- lukesandberg 17y agoExactly GI tells at most one fact about a food, and food is more than just its sugar density or its fat content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionism