What they aren’t saying is how the medical organizations keep lowering the obesity standards. It’s sort of like how most Americans now have hypertension.
EnderWiggin1970 :” I can believe this, but I want to pose a sanity check: BMI is simply a comparison of your weight to your height.
Meaning you can get a high BMI (obesity) either by being very fat... or very muscular.
Seems to me soldiers toting 80-90 lb. gear kits might score a high BMI just due to muscle mass.
Is this accounted for?
Occasionally, the health community adjusts the standards of what is the approved BMI index.
To observe and understand the real standard change of BMI index, you need to maintain consistency of the standards.
The health care community has changed the goal posts of the ideal BMI index over time.
Want to change your BMI index ? .. eliminate "high fructose corn syrup " from your diet - hint -> its in everything as a cheaper sweetener substitute than sugar.
The body stores "high fructose corn syrup" as brown fat, which is the last fat that the body will burn off