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Under the new guidelines, people with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight. For example, at 5 feet 3 inches, adults who weighed 141 pounds or more would be overweight, while those who are 5 feet 11 inches would be considered obese at 215 pounds.

Under the newly adopted policy, the AMA recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations.

Since BMI was developed in the 19th century, it's easy to see how the tool could now be seen as outdated and out of touch, because it's, well, old. But BMI's problematic history goes even deeper than that. Hartman pointed out a key detail that BMI was developed for a specific, and limited, group: mostly white males.

The BMI indication table Body Mass Index (BMI)Result Meaning (ing to WHO)Less than 18.5Underweight18.5 to 25Normal25 to 30Overweight30 to 35Moderately obese2 more rows

Underweight <18.5; Normal weight 18.5-24.9; Overweight 25-29.9; Obese class I 30-34.9; Obese class II 35-39.9; Obese class III >40 (1).

In 1998, the U.S. National Institutes of Health brought U.S. definitions in line with World Health Organization guidelines, lowering the normal/overweight cut-off from a BMI of 27.8 (men) and 27.3 (women) to a BMI of 25.

For adults ages 20 and older, a BMI of 30 and above is considered obese. The previous charts for children did not go beyond a BMI of 37. The new charts extend to a BMI of 60 and measure whether it falls within healthy parameters based on a percentile measured against other children of the same age and gender.