For years, BMI was the primary way to assess an individual for health risks, but in recent years some shocking problems have been found with it. It got me wondering Why BMI became the standards and search for alternative methods of tracking your health and risk for diseases
Manifest Challenge:
If you are new to the podcast, the Manifest Challenge is an action step that helps you progress in your health and fitness journey. This episode’s challenge is to take your waist to hip measure. Instructions are linked here: https://www.healthline.com/health/waist-to-hip-ratio#calculate
Resources mentioned in the episode:
How to calculate BMI: click here
BMI classification: file-20200724-25-osy3a3.PNG
Hip to waist ratio chart: qQAQHbxBSeOjwlSSiQ1y_Screen_Shot_2020-09-26_at_6.16.54_PM.png
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Edited by
Catherine Wong
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44: Overcoming Common Obstacles
43: Bonus tidbits about protein and amino acids
42. BCAAs vs Protein Powder
41: What is Beta-Alanine?
40. Supplements Series: What is Creatine?
39. Fire-side chat: What is Functional Fitness?
38. What causes plateaus and how to overcome them?
37. What is Functional Medicine? feat. Hally Brooke
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35. Solve the Mind-Math feat. Tracy Pleschourt
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33. The Benefit of Workout Partners feat. Chris Simmon
32. The 7 Principles of Health & Fitness feat. Dave Sherwin
31. Meet Your Dragon and Face It feat. Scott Gazzoli (from Causing the Effect Podcast)
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29. Dispel Health and Fitness Myths with Dr. Swart
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26. Expand Towards Body-Positivity feat. Olive Bassey
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