{"id":15069470,"date":"2026-03-28T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/new-analysis-reveals-flaws-in-traditional-bmi-classification-system\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:22:56","slug":"new-analysis-reveals-flaws-in-traditional-bmi-classification-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/new-analysis-reveals-flaws-in-traditional-bmi-classification-system\/","title":{"rendered":"New analysis reveals flaws in traditional BMI classification system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/image-handler\/picture\/2017\/3\/Obesity-Jakub_Cejpek_ead0fb8492f0437f96e9fd842630990c-620x480.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Research from Italy to be presented at this year&#8217;s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard technique of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to measure body fat in the general population, it shows that the traditional WHO body mass index (BMI) classification system misidentifies significant numbers of people as having overweight or obesity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260327\/New-analysis-reveals-flaws-in-traditional-BMI-classification-system.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lifestyle \u2013 Health \u2013 Medicine \u2013 rss.app<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Italy to be presented at this year&#8217;s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard technique of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used 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