Obesity diagnosis has become a mess because BMI was never meant to diagnose disease and can't tell who's actually sick. Relying on this flawed metric creates millions of misdiagnoses, labeling healthy muscular people as diseased while missing thin people with dangerous organ fat who desperately need treatment. Medicine must finally define what obesity illness actually is beyond just body size before expanding access to expensive drugs.
The waist-to-height ratio reveals the true scope of America's metabolic crisis that BMI measurements completely miss. When waist exceeds half of height, risks for insulin resistance, fatty liver and heart disease skyrocket regardless of weight. Expanding obesity criteria to include body fat distribution identifies the 75 percent of adults facing real health dangers.
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