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.
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.
Fat people looking loopholes to squeeze through.
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.
Take note obese people; You are in the majority now so you can make up the rules just like the communists are doing now.
The BMI chart is unrealistic. To get into the healthy zone for height weight and frame, you’d have to be a dedicated endurance exerciser burning off the most stubborn fat. Most professional athletes measure high because the chart doesn’t take muscle mass into account.
A more realistic chart would add 10-20 lbs to the healthy zone across the board.