Wellness

BMI Misclassifies Both the Healthy and the Overweight

  • Nearly 75 million American adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy when body mass index (BMI) categories are used as the main indicator of health.
  • Using blood pressure, triglyceride, cholesterol, glucose, insulin resistance, and C-reactive protein data is more accurate than BMI.
  • BMI misclassified nearly half of overweight individuals, 29% of obese individuals, and even 16% of individuals with type II/III were obesity as metabolically healthy.
  • Conversely, nearly 30% of normal-weight individuals were misclassified by BMI as unhealthy.

Meta-Analysis Finds Stress Decreases Telomerase Activity; Exercise Increases It


  • Telomerase activity is associated with successful DNA replication.
  • Studies link psychological stress, mental disorders, lifestyle factors, and interventions with variations in telomerase activity.
  • There are many potential molecular mechanisms underlying the changes in telomerase activity affected by psychological stress, mental disorders, and lifestyle factors.

The Life and Death Balance of the Active and the Sedentary


  • Time sitting correlates with increased all-cause mortality.
  • Time exercising does not offset deleterious effects of prolonged sitting.
  • Replacing sitting with nearly any other activity increases patients’ health.
  • Time standing, walking, cleaning, gardening, or partaking in a host of other, common activities reduces risk of morbidity and mortality.

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