What this desk is
StatGarden is published by one person rather than a newsroom. The desks are editorial identities used to show which standards a page was built to, not pen names for staff writers: no desk is a person, and none of them claims that a qualified professional has reviewed an individual page.
What a desk does say is how its pages are made, and that is a claim you can check: open any calculator it covers and the formula is printed on the page, the worked examples are generated by running that calculator rather than typed in by hand, and every rate or price is a field you set rather than a figure baked in by whoever wrote it.
How these pages are built
- Every formula is a named, published one, and the page says which: Mifflin-St Jeor rather than "a calorie formula", the US Navy tape method rather than "body fat".
- Where published methods disagree, the page shows the spread instead of picking a winner, because the disagreement is the honest answer.
- No target is implied and no figure is framed as a goal. Weight and diet pages stay on gradual, sustainable framing.
What this desk does not claim
These are general reference calculations, not medical advice, and they cannot account for a condition, a medication or an individual history. Take anything that matters to a clinician.