> A 5’ 10” male’s optimal BMI means a body weight between 130lbs and 170lbs. I've always found BMI to be a little suspect. I'm an average build 5'10'' and 170l

> A 5’ 10” male’s optimal BMI means a body weight between 130lbs and 170lbs. I've always found BMI to be a little suspect. I'm an average build 5'10'' and 170lbs at the upper range of optimal would make me look very, very lean (I've been there before and it is just not a flattering look), at 130lbs I would look down right skeletal and very unhealthy. My personal optimal is 178lbs where I look and feel great, although according to the official numbers that would put me at the lower end of overweight which is just not right. My understanding of BMI is that it's a pretty crude measure of health in that the numbers are correlated with (preventable?) deaths across an entire population and that's it. I wonder if there is some nuance of health that this single number doesn't capture too well. Anyways, just my own observation :)