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Fit but fat: The problem with BMI

By definition, the BMI has to be inaccurate if it classifies a wide range of top athletes as overweight

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Devangshu Datta
On Thursday, the founder CEO of Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, tweeted: “We are running a fun health program at @zerodhaonline. Anyone on our team with BMI <25 gets half a month’s salary as bonus. The average BMI of our team is 25.3 & if we can get to <24 by August, everyone gets another ½ month as a bonus.”

In a following tweet he admitted, “I know BMI isn’t the best measure to track health & fitness, but it is the easiest way to get started. With health & most other things in life, the most important bit is to get started.
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