Was actor Jake Gyllenhaal overweight when he filmed Road House ? Should Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce be considered nearly obese?
According to the current definition of “overweight” and “obesity,” a ratio of height and weight, both men meet those standards.
But this measure, called body mass index, or BMI, lacks nuance and fails to tell whether a person is truly healthy, a global commission of medical experts said in a paper published Tuesday in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology …