Category: Medicines

BMI is a Crap Measure

I think mass relates to volume, not area!?

So who would have thought that something that related weight to only the *square* of length would be a bad measure for individual analysis? 😮

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56669834

Even the people who invented and proposed it, actually.

Well doh!, clearly it should be the *cube*.

Oh, there is already such a measure, and it is used in pediatrics, apparently, because BMI doesn’t work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponderal_index

And surprise, surprise, it’s “better” for different gender, age and shape.

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Leave for 1 to 2 minutes

Well which is it, FFS?

Or is it 3?

This is a medicinal cutaneous product (apparently, but cream or gel to the rest of us). Presumably there is some time it should be left before going about your normal business, or whatever. But if they don’t know how long, I am damned if I do.

If I have a choice, then tell me how I should decide. I am bloody certain that at this stage the people who make it have more idea than I do of how to administer this medicine.

I even have have one that says “leave for a minimum of 3 to 6 minutes”. Right. So 3 minutes is OK then, but 6 minutes is the minimum, and it sounds like even longer is better.

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