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Morbidly A Beast   United States
Joined 2 years
I don’t understand why BMI is a worth while measure of anything of value, it is literally height divided by weight (or vice versa) there’s loads of very fit and muscley people who have similar BMI to me and I’m mostly fat. I understand BFP because that’s actually a measuring of the amount of fat on your body (maybe it wouldn’t be worth it to get BFP on someone who is visibly obese?) It seems like a way to categorize people and assign health or unhealth based on nothing being fat doesn’t make you necessarily unfit or unhealthy - and even if it did why would it matter
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Ky Belly Boy   United States
Joined 10 years
The numbers are probably wrong. But I don't know how else to find out when a person is obese or morbidly obese. (Which I hope I soon will be )😊
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HappyBigBelly   United States
Joined 11 years
Morbidly A Beast:
I don’t understand why BMI is a worth while measure of anything of value, it is literally height divided by weight (or vice versa) there’s loads of very fit and muscley people who have similar BMI to me and I’m mostly fat. I understand BFP because that’s actually a measuring of the amount of fat on your body (maybe it wouldn’t be worth it to get BFP on someone who is visibly obese?) It seems like a way to categorize people and assign health or unhealth based on nothing being fat doesn’t make you necessarily unfit or unhealthy - and even if it did why would it matter


BFP is indeed more telling a stat than BMI by itself. I consider the latter simply to get excited about, especially when mine and my wife’s keeps going up :-)
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Munchies   United States
Joined 3 years
Morbidly A Beast:
I don’t understand why BMI is a worth while measure of anything of value, it is literally height divided by weight (or vice versa) there’s loads of very fit and muscley people who have similar BMI to me and I’m mostly fat. I understand BFP because that’s actually a measuring of the amount of fat on your body (maybe it wouldn’t be worth it to get BFP on someone who is visibly obese?) It seems like a way to categorize people and assign health or unhealth based on nothing being fat doesn’t make you necessarily unfit or unhealthy - and even if it did why would it matter


This is a direct quote from the CDC:

BMI is a reasonable indicator of body fat for both adults and children. Because BMI does not measure body fat directly, it should not be used as a diagnostic tool. Instead, BMI should be used as a measure to track weight status in populations and as a screening tool to identify potential weight problems in individuals.


Of course, BMI gets used as a diagnostic tool all the time. You hate to see it.

According to the BMI chat, I'm overweight. However, you wouldn't call me that if you saw me because I'm in very good shape and quite muscular.
1 year