Make the NHS use a more accurate tool than BMI

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

BMI has been proven to be a highly inaccurate tool to measure accurate body fat and indentify people as overweight without allowing for body composition such as muscle.
Children as young as 4 are being classed as obese despite their physical fitness.

Numerous studies have proven ineffective;

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/bmi-stop-measuring-weight-height-health-measure-fitness-fat-a7894951.html%3famp

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--dub020316.php

https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo200887

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/

There are 100s of studies.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you're concerned about the use of BMI as a measurement, but we're not sure exactly what new tool you'd like to see introduced.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

15 Dec 2018	Petition opened for signatures
20 Dec 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Dec 2018

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