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Pretty much only true if you are a body builder or someone else with an unusual amount of muscle mass relative to your height. For the vast majority of people

Pretty much only true if you are a body builder or someone else with an unusual amount of muscle mass relative to your height. For the vast majority of people though BMI is fine.

brmgb 3y ago
There is little point of doing a study based on BMI when what you want is body fat. BMI is imperfect. It’s fine when you want to give people a quick metric for them to assess their fitness by themselves. People who are extremely fit with a high BMI already know they are extremely fit after all. It’s not fine when you want to analyse the effect of different life styles.
- heyoni 3y ago
  It’s easier to gather hundreds of people’s BMI for a study than it is to measure fat, which can also be misleading depending on the method used.
  - brmgb 3y ago
    It's even easier to not do the study if you are going to use bogus data anyway.
dagurp 3y ago
Very tall and very short people can also have BMI's that don't make sense.