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Because BMI doesn't distinguish between Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Whale. If you're overweight for your height, even if it's solid muscle, it's all the same
by QuercusMax 4y ago
Because BMI doesn't distinguish between Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Whale. If you're overweight for your height, even if it's solid muscle, it's all the same to BMI.
Different body fat percentages for men and women is likely how they already do it.
- xedrac 4y agoWhen I was 8% body fat, my BMI was 24.8. That's when I realized that BMI, like most office chairs, is tailored for the average population.
- notfromhere 4y agoIt works fine for the general population. We don’t exactly have an epidemic of bodybuilders
- QuercusMax 4y agoBut it's the military, so you're going to have a lot more super muscly and jacked guys than the general population. And it doesn't work well for the general population, anyway; it's a bad metric across the board. If you're very tall or very short, it misrepresents you. There are equally simple measures like waist-to-height ratio that have fewer issues. See this article: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#Waist-to-height-ratio-better-than-BMI https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#Waist-to-he...