Submitted on Saturday 15th December 2018
Rejected on Thursday 20th December 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make the NHS use a more accurate tool than BMI
BMI has been proven to be a highly inaccurate tool to measure accurate body fat and indentify people as overweight without allowing for body composition such as muscle.
Children as young as 4 are being classed as obese despite their physical fitness.
Numerous studies have proven ineffective;
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/bmi-stop-measuring-weight-height-health-measure-fitness-fat-a7894951.html%3famp
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--dub020316.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo200887
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/
There are 100s of studies.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you're concerned about the use of BMI as a measurement, but we're not sure exactly what new tool you'd like to see introduced.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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