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No way, a measure of fat around your midsection is a better predictor than height and weight, not accounting at all for composition?
by Graziano_M 1y ago
No way, a measure of fat around your midsection is a better predictor than height and weight, not accounting at all for composition?
- snthpy 1y agoIdk. At one point I was at 11% body fat and still had BMI over 25. (83kg and 1.82m) I don't think I've ever been BMI < 25.
- Graziano_M 1y agoI'm agreeing. I'm rather fit, low bodyfat %, and my BMI is about 27
- andreareina 1y agoThis is a meme that fails to understand the actual, in practice limitations of BMI. The problem is that it underdiagnoses obesity, not that it overdiagnoses it. The problem isn't the nonexistent horde of lean muscular people with BMI > 25, it's all the clinically obese people with BMI < 30 thinking that yeah they're overweight but it's not that bad, they're not obese. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877506/#:~:text=BMI%2Ddefined%20obesity%20(%E2%89%A5%2030,0.50%20and%200.55%2C%20respectively). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877506/#:~:text=BM...