As a way of measuring whether someone is a healthy weight, the Body Mass Index (BMI) has its shortcomings. It would, for instance, put Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and many of the All Blacks into the obese category, as it doesn’t account for their musculature.
At the International Congress on Obesity in Melbourne last month, a group of experts drew on a growing body of research to describe how concepts such as “ideal body weight”
