The practice in question is driven by the grift, not organic. I believe it's safe to assert that the set of people for whom the determining factor in whether o

The practice in question is driven by the grift, not organic. I believe it's safe to assert that the set of people for whom the determining factor in whether or not they seek medical care, or not, is a function of the actual stepping on a scale, is so small as to be a distraction. What general BMI someone is and what relevance that might have to whatever concerns bring them in, will of course be easily judged by health care professionals. The value in tracking a number is as others have said, specific and obvious, that it affords an opportunity to detect changes and incorporate them in a model that has to be constructed very quickly about potential diagnoses if any and next steps. IMO this is in large part grift which is wittingly or unwittingly in service of the broader politicization of expertise, which from my perspective amounts to nothing so much as an opting out of a science-based consensus reality in service of toy notions of liberty and what "harm" looks like.