Unless they're weight lifters, if someone is 5'8" tall and weighs over 190 pounds, they need to be seriously concerned with losing weight. A large-framed person who is 5'8" shouldn't weigh more than 172 pounds. At 265 pounds, they'd have a BMI of around 40 and be considered morbidly obese.
Why parrot a fad idiocy! BMI is BOGUS.
1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He produced the formula to give a quick and easy way to measure the degree of obesity of the general population to assist the government in allocating resources. In other words, it is a 200-year-old hack.
2. It is scientifically nonsensical.
There is no physiological reason to square a person's height (Quetelet had to square the height to get a formula that matched the overall data. If you can't fix the data, rig the formula!). Moreover, it ignores waist size, which is a clear indicator of obesity level.
3. It is physiologically wrong.
It makes no allowance for the relative proportions of bone, muscle and fat in the body. But bone is denser than muscle and twice as dense as fat, so a person with strong bones, good muscle tone and low fat will have a high BMI. Thus, athletes and fit, health-conscious movie stars who work out a lot tend to find themselves classified as overweight or even obese.
I guess my point is that Disney should be able to accomodate all(or most). The people paying the crazy prices are us “lard asses”, not 50 pound kids. Airplanes are 50 years old. Rides are new and should be designed to accomodate the changing size of America- if possible. Its not like a 750 lb heiffer showed up expecting to ride. We are talking about people in the 200’s. Just my opinion. And the arguement is different than air travel.