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minikites
on Sept 27, 2014
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How to see your iOS8 health data
BMI is only intended to measure health at a population level, it's too crude to have any useful input on personal health.
And height isn't static if you're an adolescent.
scoot
on Sept 28, 2014
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Exactly - and yet BMI is one of the metrics included. Meanwhile a manual input is required, despite having been provided with the relevant data.
king_jester
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Perhaps this is a concession so that people who do not want to work with BMI do not have to by default. As minikites says, on a personal health basis BMI isn't very useful so folks may want to skip it altogether.
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And height isn't static if you're an adolescent.