Your post made me think of the implications of political correctness influencing the BMI.
The BMI has no gender breakdown, just a range of numbers both male and female fit into.
If I had not put away my tin foil hat years ago I would make that claim the the government CDC is forcing us "real men" to conform to the metrosexual lifestyle of eating tofu and rabbit food trying to look like Kate Moss.
Yep, it's sheer insanity. My wife and I could both stand to lose about 10 pounds (we like our occasional drink and carbs too much to withhold entirely). She has a small frame, and I have broad shoulders and am 6'2". (I have to work hard in the gym to keep the weight down while marginally watching my diet, while she can eat whatever she wants without much exercise.)
Yet she could gain 20 pounds and still be in the normal range, while I need to lose 35 pounds to get into the normal range. If we did that she'd be clearly overweight, while I'd be gaunt.
Not tin-foil territory at all. IMO
See posts #2-4-6 & 8. It's about dependancy on Gov't. with the insurance companies jumping on the band wagon.