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It’s Time to Rethink What It Means to Be Healthy
There are many metrics that are currently used to assess human health that aren’t based in sound science, and yet they persist. The body mass index (BMI) is one of them. Even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the BMI “can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems but it is not diagnostic of the body fatness or health of an individual.”
Writer Annaliese Griffin spoke to health experts and came up with five new metrics to assess your health that have nothing to do with measurements like weight or calories and all to do with reframing your relationship with health. They include questions like: How much green stuff are you eating? What did your body do for you today? And are you sleeping enough?
Use the coming new year as an opportunity to embrace better health habits that are based in science and also take into account your well-being and mental health. Read how below.
