[ConservativeMind]

Body fat percentage was always the best approach to take—I never understood the BMI as authoratative on anything, but it’s been easier than calipers or other methods.

Know that you can be “thin-fat,” and that you have similar risks as obviously obese people, despite being thin. Your blood should tell you some of this, or step on a newer scale with bio-impedance to get a relative idea of your body fat percentage.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Responsibility2nd]

This must be true. Normal sized Americans cannot even fit into normal size airline seats.

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[Olog-hai]

The guy who created BMI, Adolphe Quetelet from Belgium, was not a physician but an “astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist” whose chief contribution was “introducing statistical methods to the social sciences” and the creation of “anthropometry”, as Wikipedia puts it. Another socialist, even though Wikipedia claims otherwise. Big influence on Charles Darwin and Francis Galton (the latter being the author of so-called “eugenics”).

[Secret Agent Man]

the bmi number alone without any other context is often garbage for determining health

[BipolarBob]

My weight is not the problem, it’s my height. If I were 2 ft. taller, I’d be just right.

[DesertRhino]

How do you measure body fat vs BMI?

[bigbob]

We need to go back to the 50s, 60s, and 70s where being fat was the exception rather than the rule. Every time I look at photos from back then the contrast is stark. There were maybe 1 or 2 overweight kids in my school classes, I had a shop teacher we called “Fat Rabbit”, but most people were of normal weight and were not obese.

[Rusty0604]

Thanks for the ping.

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[Hot Tabasco]

There are three houses directly behind my house, side by side. Each one of them is inhabited by single females who are morbidly obese. I’m talking 250 pounders plus......