140lbs is at the extreme low end for healthy 72” males. And it is correct. It is extremely, very, no-good bad to have excess body fat and if you are a 72” tal

140lbs is at the extreme low end for healthy 72” males. And it is correct. It is extremely, very, no-good bad to have excess body fat and if you are a 72” tall male who is not physically active that is where you should be. Of course, for athletes, BMI is not relevant but those people are edge cases not worthy of discussion when you it comes to BMI. The fact that people think it is unreasonable shows how perceptions on weight have been warped over the last 20-40 years. At 6” tall and 140lbs you probably would have been the target audience for the “pack on some beefcake muscle with Joe Rock’s muscleman workout” ads in the back of comic books and magazines. But you would have been healthy. The median weight of a 72” tall college-aged male in the 1950s was 167lbs. Almost exactly in the middle of the “healthy” BMI range. https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43861419/PDF https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43861419/PDF