The American Medical Association voted to adopt a new policy on Tuesday encouraging doctors not to rely only on body mass index, a long-used but potentially misleading metric, when assessing weight and health.The policy officially recognizes the historical harm of B.M.I. and states that the metric has been used for racist exclusion.
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