It kept me off the fat boy program in the military.
I was in the Marines back when they first started using BMI as a measure to determine if you were ‘obese’.
We had a guy in our company that was a body builder. He was a short person, probably 5’ 3 “ or so.
He was in no ways ‘fat’ or ‘obese’, but his BMI said he was.
They made him go to what we called ‘Fat Body Platoon’ three times a week, afternoons.
He loved it.
He got to exercise and jog and lift weights and it got him out of ‘work’!....................