BMI is totally stupid. It measures nothing. People are not just different heights. They are different thicknesses as well. BMI assumes that everyone is the same muscle mass, and bone mass. Totally false.
It’s one of those arbitrary metrics that have become truth because it is repeated so often — largely by people who don’t know any better, because all they’ve ever learned in life, is what somebody told them to repeat. “Hey hey, ho ho...” as though that made them sound intelligent and united.
In the case of the “BMI,” “target heart rate,” “cholesterol,” it was sold as the “correct” answers to the idiotic tests to become certified as “fitness” instructors — at their one-day seminars for obtaining their certifications, which also required a “First Aid and CPR” certification as a prerequisite — for which they are simply certifying that one possessed it on admittance, and not that it was truly an expertise in anything beyond that.
That is the obvious example of abuse of these certifications of truth. There’s actually no scientific substantiation — but people quote the “experts” — because they have no idea that the “scientific method” requires validation by anyone — and not simply repetition of unquestioned, and unchallenged truths.
That is the quintessential scientific method — that it can be challenged at all times, by anyone — and not just the authoritarianism of those whose main achievement in life is rising to the position of greatest prominence — often by ruthlessly suppressing all other explanations. Thus the popular media preens itself on its ability to convince us of what is untrue as their own display of power in determining who are these authorities — just like the ancient “Pharisees and Scribes,” Jesus often referred to — as self-anointed authorities on virtually everything.
The BMI can be calculated from the original tables — just as the tax rate algorithm simulate the tax tables — but that doesn’t make it sacrosanct. The Target heart rate is a similar arbitrary calculation — mainly to sell heart rate monitors. The aversion to cholesterol has no scientific basis other than a few conjectures and deeply flawed epidemiological studies that merely confirmed what the proponent “wanted” to prove. That’s not science — even as much as it is repeated as the Golden Rule to Health either. In fact, that may be the cause of most age-related diseases of the metabolic kind — in that the brain and all the organs are actually composed of cholesterol and fats — because they are insoluble in water, and thus compose the cell walls, and when they break down, wreak predictable havoc on the rest of the body.
So when I hear someone boasting of knowing “BMI,” “Target heart rate,” “high cholesterol,” I immediately recognize that that is the extent of “all” they know — and nothing else of true significance.
I suspect once tbe progressive democratic communist party of America takes over the government again it will be used to deny medical services to anyone with a higher bmi than the charts indicate it sould be.
What does it mean when my BMI is higher than my IQ?
I went to a BMI calculator. I am 5’11”. I entered my height and actual weight of 175 pounds. The calculator says my weight is normal. I entered 195 pounds the calculator said that is normal. I entered 145 pounds the calculator said that is normal. When I entered 200 pounds I finally got an abnormal (over weight) reading. The results are all over the place,
I would have to lose about 40 pounds to not be “obese.”
My doctor doesn’t concur with that based on my structure. He thinks I should lose about 35.
He has me confused. So, I just stopped trying.
(I am kidding. I could lose 45 pounds.)
Test: Stand naked in front of a full length mirror.
You will get your answer on whether you are fat/obese or not.
*** “I’m not fat, I’m short for my weight..” ***
That was me 1 1/2 years ago ... KETO works, I’m 70lbs lighter (all fat) my gut is 12” smaller, I was wearing 42” Jeans, now 36” ... No more BP Meds and I am no longer a borderline type 2 Diabetic (more accurately described as Metabolic Syndrome)
I want to tell everyone and we can put the Kidney Dialysis and Foot Lopper folks out of business
Not carrying around that 70lbs all day everyday also makes me happy
BMI stinks! I always flag automatic warnings at the doctor’s office because my BMI is 27.2, yet no one would consider me fat. I workout with weights frequently and have a 32 inch waist (6 feet tall)! BMI is just another dumb example from “experts”.
I ignore it all together, My “ideal weight I haven’t seen since junior high and I played sport throughout high school. Am I fat, yes, now I am, I should lose about 30 or 40 lbs— to reach my ideal weight 60-70.
The HUGE expose’ of the fallacy of BMI is that it says men and women of the same height should weigh the same.
While most physicians would never agree with that, when they support BMI they are admitting that they do.
If a man and woman of the same height weigh the same, the man is either under weight or the woman overweight.
God made the sexes (only 2) incredibly different - true science both acknowledges this, it supports it.
Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.
https://tinyurl.com/yxm5kewb
Babe did pretty well on hog dogs and beer and hookers.