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> there are plenty of people who have "healthy obesity", on account of muscle mass. There are _very few_ people who have a BMI over 30 purely by having an extr
by muldvarp 4y ago
> there are plenty of people who have "healthy obesity", on account of muscle mass.
There are _very few_ people who have a BMI over 30 purely by having an extreme amount of muscle mass and most of them are on steroids. Also, there are weight related issues for which it is irrelevant whether the extra weight is fat or muscle mass.
- whiddershins 4y agoBMI has a problem with tall people.
- muldvarp 4y agoYes, BMI has problems, but "there are so many hypermuscular people that it makes BMI obsolete" is certainly not one. Ironically, people with normal weight but high body fat percentage ("skinny fat") are one of the problems of BMI, which is almost never brought up by BMI critics.