And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Health news abounding the last couple of days, delegates at the annual meeting of the

American Medical Association, the AMA, House of Delegates, adopted a policy aimed at clarifying

how body mass index BMI can be used as a measure in medicine.

After the newly adapted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement

due to its historical harm.

When you think of historical harm, you think of BMI.

It's used for racist exclusion.

That's because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations

of non-Hispanic white populations.

Oh, okay.

So it's an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups, given that it does

not account for differences across race, ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age span.

Given the report's findings, the new policy supports AMA and educating physicians on the

issues with BMI and alternative measures of diagnosing obesity.

Then we have a group of health experts that have now said Americans age 19 to 64 should

get screened for anxiety, even if they don't have any symptoms.

The task force said pregnant women and new moms should also be examined.

Now about 19% of adults in the US have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in the

past year.

Now for the first time, the group of health experts have issued a final recommendation

on anxiety screenings for adults.

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