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It's bullshit because it doesn't take into account bone density and build and all sorts of other factors that have squat to do with maintaining a healthy weight which is completely different than this so-called "ideal" weight nonsense.
Did I hit the high points?
And also, you can be fat and healthy. And we do not have an obligation to be healthy for society anyway!
Hey Brenda, how's Lucy this morning? And how are you doing?
Waits for someone else to come along to say what utter bullshit the BMI scale is, for I am weary.
Damnit, where is that "BMI=CRAP" macro when you need it?
And we do not have an obligation to be healthy for society anyway!
Well, that's not exactly true given the way insurance works.
But, yeah, BMI is bullshit. And you can be "overweight" and healthy or "thin" and unhealthy.
This
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr. (Which I'm sure I must have gotten to from a link from a buffista in the first place!)
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr.
That is made of awesome. It illustrates much better how CRAP the BMI is than my tired old rant does.
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr.so if your a women, and not tall, and happened to be well endowed, then you are obese? I liked the Karate gal that was labeled about to die, or some such. That cracked me up. Ya, BMI is out of whack. Ignore it. And Laga, I wouldn't worry too much. Not to say physical exercise couldn't help any of us, so by all means, go for it. But don't obsess.
(not here. must go to work.)
BMI is total crap. But I'll take it over the previous method of determining overweight and obese, which was strictly by weight. Most of my time in the Navy I was presumedly not suitable for reenlistment because of my weight (5'3", 140 lb., the cut off was 134), although they always let me reenlist. Once it went to body fat I was "safe" at 142 because I had a BMI of 24 (their overweight was 30, general public is 26.) That was without going to the gym. Totally fit and 135 I had a BMI of 18. Contrast that with some of those superskinny women at 5'7", 105 lb. and 16 BMI as "underweight" and 110 as "normal." The categories are pretty arbitrary and POINTLESS.
t /rant
Nora, other than weary of ranting about the BMI, how you feeling? Do you still have the ick?
Headdesk
Dear J
I wrote out procedures for you. You didn't follow them. Now things are a mess that I get the "pleasure" of cleaning up while you take a week vacation. And YOU are going to train someone else, in less than a month, to take over the job before you head off to another country for 2 years? Even though it took you over 6 months to learn how to do this stuff and you are still making big mistakes?
No love, Me
Headdesk, headdesk, headdesk, headdesk