“IF they are basing “fat” on the awful and inaccurate BMI index, then they could indeed be incorrect.”
The BMI is a total joke.
About nine years ago I changed employers
As a CDL holder I had to have a new DOT physical just because I was changing company’s.
There was one young young fella who was the same height as me, about 5’6”.
But he was big as a house.
His biceps were dang near as big as my thighs.
But it was all muscle, he was a very serious weight lifter. He brought his weights with him and worked out every morning and evening.
The docs came to the company facility to give the physicals.
He Failed!
His huge muscles made him “overweight” for his height.
He eventually got his physical card but he had to jump through some extra hoops to get it.
My dad was 5’5” and weighed about 200 lbs in his prime.
That was 200 lbs of muscle from a lifetime of hard farm work.
He was considered overweight by any young doctor.
The BMI index is a joke foisted on us by silly axxed bureaucrats.
It was foisted on us by the medical community in order to classify healthy people as overweight and obese totally based on a weight height ratio, and nothing else. In order to freak and stress people out in order to put them on unnecessary prescription drugs, if possible.
The bmi is to medicine as global warming is to earth science. Fundamentally flawed.
i kick the ass of all the skinny young doctors who say i am obese and need to lose 95 pounds for my height... 5’10 265 lbs...
while they are whimpering on the floor i ask them how it feels to be losing this 265 pounds...
in my mind... but i know i could eat better, but i am happy.
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