What Are The Limitations Of The Body Mass Index?

This is a statistical tool to measure the fatness of the body of male and female. So by calculating the body mass index you can measure if the person is suffering from any disease. However there are many questions arises on the measurement of this tool because these tools are purely statistical tool there is no scientific prove for the patients to measure their mass with the help of just a mathematical formula. There are many other limitation which is that it cannot be implement on the pregnant women and on those women who use to feed their children from the breast.

So if someone wants to calculate the mass of the children there are many other factors which are neglected so this test is suspicious for the people to rely mainly on the body mass index. One of the limitations of the body mass index is that it calculates the total weight of the human body and does not tell the actual weights of the fats in the human body. So this is one limitation of the body mass index. The second thing in the Body mass index is that it tells the overweight sign in the athletes even they are not.

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