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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

BMI is biased towards slimness as the height increases. You can be a willow branch build, but be considered overweight at 7’0”.

That’s why I suggest focusing on your composition. If you are 15-20% as a male and 20-25% as a female, you are not overweight regardless of what the scale says.


4 posted on 01/22/2024 2:48:35 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: Jonty30

Concur. BMI made sense 100 years ago, before people started lifting weights. In the eighties, I used to go to an old Jewish tailor to adjust my uniforms. How old? He showed me his concentration camp tattoo. We got into a discussion on body shapes. He told me that athletic men in the 1980s would have been considered the muscle men on the 1950s. Yes, as a group Americans are much fatter, but those stay in shape are much more muscular than in the days of old, which the BMI does not take into account.


21 posted on 01/22/2024 6:36:59 AM PST by fini
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