BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.

Doctors use BMI to assess patients' health, but a new report suggests that they shouldn't.

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• A new report recommends doctors stop using Body Mass Index to diagnose obesity because it isn't nuanced enough.
• Doctors should consider a patient's overall health instead of their weight, it said.
• A leading obesity expert told Business Insider why BMI is bogus and how to better assess the risk of overweight.

The previous version of this story was published in 2022...