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Dozens of eating disorder services are rejecting patients because they are too thin, a damning new report has revealed. The National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED) found that some inpatient units ...

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Our body mass index is categorized into underweight, normal, overweight, and obese based on data largely from white middle-aged men—decades ago. For decades, we've used body mass index (BMI) to infer ...