Weighing the evidence: Assessing the relationship between body weight and health.
Although BMI is used to evaluate body weight, the measure isn't always an accurate measure of health.The “Thin is In” zeitgeist has maintained an iron fist on our collective psyches for at least the past 60 years.
This was driven home to me this year as I have lost 35 pounds due to a series of unfortunate health events. Losing weight without trying is not typically a measure of health and is often indicative of underlying physical problems, as it was for me. Although we like to think of body weight as something we can control by regulating what we eat, it is actually determined by a host of complex factors. The hypothalamus, a structure deep in the middle of the brain, is responsible for regulating thirst,, and nerves to interact with the body based on feedback from the body, including the stomach and adipose tissue, and other areas of the brain as well.
Furthermore, we aren’t even sure what a healthy weight is for a given individual. While we know that the extremes of starvation and obesity have negative health outcomes, there is far less clarity for those of us who fall in the middle.
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