When this B.S. first came out, Micheal Jordan was obese.
What does that make Ms Obama?
I wore a 48 jacket with 32" waist pants.
My body fat was about 9-12%. I worked out an hour a day and ran 5 miles a day.
Even the inventor of the BMI process admitted that it was imperfect and flawed, yet here we are using it to gauge the health of children. It’s the simplest measure of body composition without having to grope with calipers or immerse someone in water. However, the health departments of the world go to it without pause because it is the simplest despite the flawed output. Body composition is so much more than height and weight. Bone density, muscle density, flexibility, and overall strength are much more important factors when considering body composition and health than how much fat one is carrying.
My Grand daughter got a fat letter.
She is definitely not fat. I think they send them to everyone just to help Michelle Obama keep her program going.
I wonder where the Mooch would come out on a BMI.
If you want to gain weight, you’re told to exercise and build up the muscles. That’s what this boy did.
It’s as simple as that.
If the government can’t understand that, they should get out of the “fat” business.
Those BMI indexes are BS for a lot of people. I have always had a large frame, big shoulders, broad chest, wider than average hips for a guy, thick thighs. I couldn’t play pee wee football when I was young because I weighed too much. I wasn’t fat, just tall and big for my age.
I am heavier now, and have been off and on during my adult life, but about 10 years ago went on a serious work out/weight loss program. I went from about 260 pounds and within a year was down to under 180. But I didn’t look healthy at that weight. Instead of “boy you look great!”, I got “oh, are you OK?”. People thought I had cancer or something. The thing is, 180 is the upper bound of what is “optimal” for someone my height. If I lost any more weight, I would have looked like I just walked out of Auschwitz after the war. Yet the lower band of “optimal” for me is 140 pounds. My organs would just about be shutting down at that point. Optimal for me is probably around 200 pounds when I’m working out.
My wife’s side of the family is the opposite, thin, fine bones narrower shoulders. Our son inherited those traits from his Mom. He 22 and is 6 ft 2, about 165 pounds, and he weighed less than 150 a couple of years ago. He has always been told he is skinny and hates it....
“I’d like to see the fat tub of lard state bureaucrat ...”
He/she may be one of the cadaver-like vegans, who look emaciated and quite unhealthy, but who feel called upon to recruit children into their cause.
Laughable and egregious stupidity on the part of some Marxachusetts pinheaded commissar dolt somewhere.
Reminds one of the old Kurt Vonnegut story in which gifted basketball players are forced to play in chains so they can be more “average.”
No doubt the Secretary of Defense will soon be sending out letters to the heads of all the world’s foreign countries saying something such as, “We in the United States have decided to permit women in combat; please be mindful of their weaker physical constitutions and be gentle with them.”
All this Leftist NewThink is well and truly f*cked.