> Most of the people that I know who have needed hip or knee surgery are thinner people. I'm proposing that weight loss is an effective and reasonable treatmen

> Most of the people that I know who have needed hip or knee surgery are thinner people. I'm proposing that weight loss is an effective and reasonable treatment for hip or knee problems in obese people, so this observation is consistent with my proposition. > I know, anecdotes are not data, but there is essentially no data that supports the claims made about BMI, and there are known measurements that are more effective than this grossly ineffective ratio that is loved pretty much only by insurance underwriters. People are focusing in on BMI as being an inaccurate measurement of fatness, but notably all the cases noted where people treated with weight loss instead of surgery are people who are fat by any measurement you want to pick. Look at the pictures, or read how the person interviewed says, "Do you think I don't know I'm fat?" Can you point to cases where someone who isn't fat was denied surgery due to their BMI?