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Interesting study, but since FAT causes obesity why did they rely on BMI to determine their findings? BMI doesn't measure body fat, it will give you a generic weight range. Two people can have the same BMI, but a different percent body fat.

The CDC itself admits that BMI calculations unfairly tell millions of Americans that they are overweight. But the agency says the formula was never meant to tell those people they are "overfat."

Under the same CDC guidelines, Andrew, a 240-pound weightlifter and former Mr. Australia, is obese. Just would need to lose 70 pounds to get in shape.

Under the CDC's guideline, he says, "I'm incredibly unhealthy, and probably should have been dead yesterday, but obviously, I'm not."

Using this scale, Mel Gibson is overweight. He scores a 25. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants scores a 29: He's overweight. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a 33 — obese.

also if you are 5-feet, 7-inches tall and weigh 159 pounds, your BMI is a marginally satisfactory 24.9. 25 is overweight. However, if you creep up to 160 pounds, you fall into the overweight category with a BMI of 25.1.

Sounds like junk science to me.

It's transparent that BMI was calculated to include as many of us as possible. If I'm not mistaken, there has been at least one "correction" to it after protests from non-obese people BMI marked as obese. The bigger class of fatsos, the bigger the size of the problem presented to the media and the purse string holders in all the federal and local governments.

Another disguised key fact, which only one article I have read exposed, is that the so-called "obesity epidemic" affects mostly, almost exclusively, the lower social classes in this classless communist (in this respect at least) society. And as we know, the professional socialists in our government are most concerned about serving the easily manipulable, dependable voters among the lower classes (without ever admitting it.)