Posted on 06/19/2023 1:12:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BMI is racist!.................
When I lost 55 lbs about 25 years ago, I was, at 6’ 1”, 190 lbs. I looked like a bean stalk. My friends commented on the possibility that I was too skinny. Yet, the official government stats said I should have been at 160. That’s what I weighed in high school.
Emmitt Smith was around 5’7” and 220 lbs. when he played. BMI is BS.
the obese simply trying to redefine what obese is, the same way the fags took over the APA and declared themselves sane.
It’s pretty clear visually. What’s the kerfuffle?
How is it possible that so many have atrophied to such a great extent?
“Only 36% of participants had a BMI of 30 or more — the traditional cutoff for obesity — while 74% had obesity according to total body fat percentage, defined as a body fat percentage of 25% or higher in males and 32% or higher for females. “
No muscle mass.
muscle is much denser than fat, so for athletes the BMI is not accurate at all. But lets be honest here, the people that are pushing this are not athletes, they are morbidly obese with no muscle mass, but simply want to not be told they are what they are.
Yup. They want to get their own ‘participation trophies’ without doing any work.
Oddly enough, that same Texas guy I told you about on the other thread got caught up in the BMI ‘problem’ when the Marines started using it in the late 70’s to determine who was ‘fat’.
He was short, but very muscular and fit as a person could be. He worked out and jogged and the like, but his BMI showed him to be ‘fat’ because muscle is denser and heavier than fat tissue.
He had to report to what was called ‘Fat Body Platoon’ every afternoon for Physical Exercises. He didn’t mind it, because it got him out of work early and he was a physical fitness buff anyways.
So for that reason alone I have always considered BMI as not really accurate for everybody...................
as not having obesity,
Vice versa, more likely...
Mostly its genetic: people are just too short for their weight.
For example, a trained, non-heavyweight boxer, partially or fully dehydrated, can barely make 160 pounds at 5' 9", let alone make that weight at 6' 1".
Fat people looking loopholes to squeeze through.
Its a pofential indicator. By itself it doesn’t provide enough context. Its just a heith to weight ratio so it really can be a useless number for certain body types or people with chronic conditions.
Ie it would say a sick person who’s underweight is healthier than an athlete that says hes obese.
It would say a person who not overweight but doesn’t exercise is healthier than a person who exercises but muscle pushes them to a “overweight” bmi number.
It would say a fat person who doesnt exercise could be equal in hezlth to a fat person who does exercise.
It could say a person with a chronic illness could be healthier that a person who is called fat by their bmi number but who exercises.
That number alone doesn’t provide a full picture and often provides an inaccurate picture. More context is required.
Just another stupid idea that got packaged up nicely as “scientific.”
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/risk.htm
Causality matters.
Yes, there is a correlation between BMI and all sorts of medical conditions, but not everyone is heavy because they are fat.
BMI is an over simplification.
When you create general rules like that, but where you have a lack of causality and many exceptions, you should not apply that rule rigidly, rather only as as an indicator to look further.
BMI has never been an accurate indicator of obesity. If you work out hard and have a muscle mass above average it skews the BMI upward. Evander Holyfield in his prime was categorized as obese according to his BMI.
Now if your ass is 3ft wide and you have a BMI that says you’re obese then you are most likely obese.
It looks to me like they need to specify the kinds of fat that are dangerous. Specifically, visceral fat around and in the inner organs is visceral fat. It has very bad effects on the body.
Subcutaneous fat or the love handles around the belly is relatively benign.
Brown fat is good for you.
Break the gauge before admitting what it tells.
I will never forget one of the times they 'updated' the BMI index. Michael Jordan was still winning NBA championships. According to the 'new & improved' BMI index, MJ is obese.
'Experts' 'Scientists' For most of these creeps PhD really does mean Piled Hire & Deeper Xxxxxxx
Makes sense. My wife sees me as a “big guy”. She said I have huge bones. It was confirmed when I had open heart surgery last march. I have a 12” scar in my chest. There was a LOT of bone there.
Some people just have delicate frames - even men. And some are ore substantial. The female version of the latter we call “amazon”.
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