Doctors now doubt accuracy of BMI as prime indicator of obesity and healthy living
In 1972, American physiologist Ancel Keys examined several height-weight indices and found that Quetelet’s was the best predictor of the thickness of body fat. He renamed it the body-mass index and proposed that it was a better indicator of healthy body size than were the height-weight tables commonly used at the time.
World Economic Forum calls for collective action to fight misinformation, disinformation
The “Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act” would limit what New York officials say are the harmful and addictive features of social media for children. The act would allow users under 18 and their parents to opt out of receiving feeds driven by algorithms designed to harness users’ personal data to keep them on the platforms for as long as possible.
Israeli military pulverise Gaza with airstrikes as humanitarian crisis worsens, death toll rises
As the latest Israel-Hamas war reaches its sixth day, the Israeli military pulverised the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege would remain in place until the Hamas militants that rule the territory freed some 150 hostages taken during a grisly...
