When it comes to measuring weight, first the name of the body mass index (BMI) comes in the mind. Doctors and health actors have been using body mass index technology for a long time to track and manage. Doctors from BMI try to find out how healthy the person’s body is. People whose weight can be threatened in future, they are informed to maintain the right weight through BMI.
Why is it not possible to calculate accurate calculation with BMI?
The problem with BMI is that BMI cannot tell the exact position of the body structure. It measures health risk by calculating height and weight. Although the muscles and bones weigh more than body fat, so BMI can exaggerate health risks in more muscle body or long-hearted people.
Whereas it is reality that people with normal BMI can also have blood pressure, diabetes and heart dishes.
Boston’s Harvard T.H. According to the Chan School of Public Health, the BMI can reduce the health risk in the elderly and any person with low muscle. Whereas even thin people can accumulate more fat in a particular organ and around it. That is to say that BMI can calculate a high risk for a person with more muscles and a low risk for a person with more muscles, that is, the exact calculation of health risk through BMI is difficult.
What is the problem with BMI
Body mass index (BMI) decides whether a person’s body weight is correct. For this, it measures the weight of the person in relation to their height and it is not very helpful in giving information about the exact structure of the body.
Bia is better than BMI
In a new study, scientists have introduced a separate technique of weight measuring, called Bioelectrical Empidens Analysis (BIA). This technique can be more accurate than BMI in estimating future health problems. If you say in easy language, BAI shows how much fat is there in the body, which can later become the cause of diseases.
It uses not only to measure the percentage of fat in the body but also to measure the weight of lean and water weight and to measure the weight of water.
How BIA works
To use this technique, you stand on the metal plates of BIA machine and place your hands or thumb on the attachment of any other metal kept away from the body. As soon as starting, the machine sends a Weak Electrical Current (quite mild and light current) to the body. The special thing is that during this time the calculations of the body’s fat, muscles and bones have different calculations, so the machine can give accurate calculation by determining the weight of muscles, fat percentage and water.
Body fat is more dangerous
Arch Menus III, the lead author of the study published on Tuesday in the Journal Annals of Family Medicine, says, “We have included adults between 20 and 49 years of age in this research. During this time we found that the risk of any disease in these adults for the next 15 years is more than body-fat percentage compared to overall beMI.
Menus, Professor of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida School of Medicine, also said that when it comes to death due to heart disease, people with high body fat measured through BIA are 262% more than those who have a healthy percentage of fat.