'BMI is a waste of time': Measurement is WRONGLY branding millions of fat people unhealthy (tr)…

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:17 EST, 4 February 2016 | Anna Hodgekiss

[Olog-hai]

The use of Body Mass Index to assess a person's health has led to millions of people incorrectly being labeled overweight or obese, researchers claim.

The measurement has been used by doctors for more than 150 years, but has come under increasing criticism for being a flawed marker of health. [...]

Now, however, Californian researchers claim their research will be will be 'the final nail in the coffin for BMI'. [...]

This revealed almost half of Americans who are labeled 'overweight' by virtue of their BMIs (47.4 percent, or 34.4 million people) are healthy, as are 19.8 million who are considered 'obese.' However, the analysis also found more than 30 percent of those with BMIs in the 'normal' range, - about 20.7 million people - are actually unhealthy based on their other health data. And more than two million people who are considered 'very obese' by virtue of having a BMI of 35 or above are actually healthy. ...

[Jewbacca]

There always is the option of picking a less stupid career path.

I will say, as a pilot, the opportunity to “hit it” is high.

Sadly, I’m actually religious.

[SamAdams76]

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[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping Sam.

FWIW, I have suspected this a some time.

[FreedomPoster]

While familiar with the slug, in engineering school we dealt with, and were always careful to specify which we were using, lb_f and lb_m, the pound force and pound mass. The former being the force generated by the latter in an Earth-standard gravitational field.

[beaversmom]

Thank you for ping SA76.

[Grimmy]

“It’s completely stupid and based on 1970s science that we should all be stick people gay marathon runners.”

It was actually invented in 1830 by Adolphe Quételet from Brussels, Belgium.

The purpose of this “invention” had nothing to do with health. It was another attempt to predict human social/criminal potential. In other words, nothing more than another version of Phrenology.

There is no science behind BMI. All who use BMI in the medical and insurance industries are perpetrating and furthering KNOWN fraud.

[1Old Pro]

Bottom line, statistics PROVE that EVERYONE who ever ate vegetables will eventually DIE!