> I understand the desire to be contrarian I assure you that's not my motivation at all. I'm not an expert in that field so I tend to trust the metrics used by

> I understand the desire to be contrarian I assure you that's not my motivation at all. I'm not an expert in that field so I tend to trust the metrics used by the health professionals I encounter. > BMI is widely regarded as totally obsolete That is not my impression at all, but again I'm not a subject matter expert here. If you have reliable (ie academic or medical) sources I would be interested in learning more about any current preferred metrics.