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August 24, 2015 07:15 am PDT

BMI has "crucial shortcomings" as measure of obesity

Once again, with feeling: Body Mass Index doesn't tell us much about who is and is not overweight. Albert Sun weighs in for the NYT:

The illustrations here were created from scans of six people, who were all 5 feet 9 inches tall and 172 pounds.

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