EFR 437: Is BMI the Best Marker for Health? Best Practices for Measuring Body Composition with May Chewning
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A very special collar-cast with my wife May from her show, May's Anatomy. This episode is one that has been up and coming since the origin of her podcast as she finally sits down to discuss her research and personal beliefs on the use of body mass index in the primary care setting. May and I talk about our personal and professional experiences using BMI to determine fat-defined obesity and obesity related risks such as diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. She also provides a breakdown of research conducted while in Nurse Practitioner school of an integrative systematic review aimed at determining the most accurate anthropometric measurement for fat-defined obesity in the primary care setting.
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An Integrative Review of Anthropometric Measurements in Primary Care
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to episode 437 of the podcast. I am actually sharing an episode that I double dipped with my wife, May, double dipped from her show May's anatomy podcast, and we dive into BMI, body mass index, |
| 0:15.3 | a clinical explanation to understanding |
| 0:17.3 | of what it is and what it isn't, right? |
| 0:20.2 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 0:21.4 | You know, we always talk about BMI in health care, in medicine, in wellness, and there are just so many other measurements that we can use that might be a little bit more accurate. |
| 0:32.0 | So we talk about those different options. be a little bit more accurate. |
| 0:32.6 | So we talk about those different options |
| 0:35.1 | in today's episode between a Dexa scan, a BIA, |
| 0:38.4 | relative Fat Mass Index, and just share |
| 0:41.1 | our stories and our experiences with BMI and why we just really don't think it's the best option out there. |
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