BMI sure causes a lot of people to get their panties in a wad, mostly because it tells them what they don’t want to hear...that they’re too fat. Everybody knows it’s not a perfect measurement of body fat, it was never meant to be. It’s just a general screening tool. If you know your weight and height then you know your BMI, it takes seconds and costs nothing. Weighing in water takes a special apparatus, pool, and time. A DEXA scan is even better but guess what it takes? Time and money. BMI is a cheap and easy way to tell the doctor he might want to look for other things, by itself it means nothing but a lot of people sure don’t like to hear it.
A lot of truth and tough love in your assessment. It is to everyone’s benefit to work towards reducing intake and/or smarter intake. I struggle with it but i do at least try. Every day i see many obese people out and about who appear to have given up.
You have the best post. I wonder what each posters BMI is. I doubt if we have any professional athletes. Mine is about 75% level in the normal range. I could stand to lose a little weight. People take a variety of pills to cure aliments that could be reduced, in many cases, by changes in diet and exercise.
Seems to make sense to me. What % of the population does it mess up on? What % of the population has the physiques that it can’t handle? Sure seems like my observations of the population coincide with the obesity rate pretty closely.
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The ratio of your height to waist diameter is also a good way to gauge health. Your height should be at least twice your waist size.