Yeah, Tommy, but when the various medical groups keep putting out standards for weight that define starving men in Ethiopia as obese, we stop listening to them.
I think one should grade their amount of body fat with the water displacement test ? I was told by the flight surgeon I should weigh around 175-185 at six feet tall. I weighed 210 yet ran six miles a day,swam for a hour and PT'd for about two hours also each day ..... As I was in the best shape of my life I asked for one of the bodyfat water dunk tests from University of New Mexico. It measured me at 10% .....
I was reprimanded and put into the fatboy program for observation and counseling. This rule of health measurement was , is and alweays be clearly BS. No I didn't lose the weight, but the body fat went down to my all time low of 8%....add to that, I was threatened with a general discharge etc until a congressman and a wing commander stepped into the fray and saved my unhealthy fat ass from seperation from the service.
If a basic mod o, mark one human being has a body fat percentage between 10 & 20% they are not obese IMHO. Regardless of age or sex etc I think the waterdunk test, a blood test to check yer HDL & LDL, Sugars etc and a stress test for yer ticker should be a gauge of ones general health. Regardless if they have a running account at baskin robbins and Micky D's or they graze on grass , roots and berries......
Just how I have experienced it......