ABC Radio Brisbane interview about my the new BMI guidelines

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Guest speaker for ABC Radio Brisbane with Johnny Manning on the ‘Afternoons’ show.

Topic: Body Mass Index (BMI). Invitation stemmed from my 2023 article in ‘The Conversation’ on the Body Mass Index which has more than 200,000 reads: ‘The body mass index can’t tell us if we’re healthy. Here’s what we should use instead’: https://theconversation.com/the-body-mass-index-cant-tell-us-if-were-healthy-heres-what-we-should-use-instead-211190

Recording: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-afternoons/afternoons/104808190 (timing: 15.03 - 25.35 minutes).

They wanted someone to speak about the new Lancet BMI guidelines: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/obestity-definitions-body-roundness-index-bmi/104815814

https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/clinical-obesity

Period15 Jan 2025

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleBody Mass Index
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletABC Radio Brisbane
    Media typeRadio
    Duration/Length/Size10 minutes
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    Date15/01/25
    DescriptionInvitation stemmed from my 2023 article in ‘The Conversation’ on the Body Mass Index which has more than 200,000 reads: ‘The body mass index can’t tell us if we’re healthy. Here’s what we should use instead’: https://theconversation.com/the-body-mass-index-cant-tell-us-if-were-healthy-heres-what-we-should-use-instead-211190

    Recording: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-afternoons/afternoons/104808190 (timing: 15.03 - 25.35 minutes).

    They wanted someone to speak about the new Lancet BMI guidelines: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/obestity-definitions-body-roundness-index-bmi/104815814
    https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/clinical-obesity
    Producer/AuthorAleisha McLaren
    URLhttps://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-afternoons/afternoons/104808190
    PersonsRachael Jefferson

Keywords

  • BMI
  • health