This is a meme that fails to understand the actual, in practice limitations of BMI. The problem is that it underdiagnoses obesity, not that it overdiagnoses it. The problem isn't the nonexistent horde of lean muscular people with BMI > 25, it's all the clinically obese people with BMI < 30 thinking that yeah they're overweight but it's not that bad, they're not obese.
It's really easy for a healthy man to get BMI >25 with a few months of weight lifting. Frankly, denial and downplaying of this fact just increases skepticism of BMI and the people who say it's a relevant metric.
No way, a measure of fat around your midsection is a better predictor than height and weight, not accounting at all for composition?
This is a meme that fails to understand the actual, in practice limitations of BMI. The problem is that it underdiagnoses obesity, not that it overdiagnoses it. The problem isn't the nonexistent horde of lean muscular people with BMI > 25, it's all the clinically obese people with BMI < 30 thinking that yeah they're overweight but it's not that bad, they're not obese.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877506/#:~:text=BM...
It's really easy for a healthy man to get BMI >25 with a few months of weight lifting. Frankly, denial and downplaying of this fact just increases skepticism of BMI and the people who say it's a relevant metric.
Idk. At one point I was at 11% body fat and still had BMI over 25. (83kg and 1.82m) I don't think I've ever been BMI < 25.
Original article: "Waist-to-height ratio and coronary artery calcium incidence: the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)" - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...
I’ve gained about 15 lbs from my younger days and lost 2” from the waist. Stomach sticks out now, didn’t back then.
So - progress ?!?!
Almost seems saying “floor breaking when stepped on strongly correlated with arterial blockage.”
If you're at the point where waist to height ratio vs BMI is something you debate about, you're already too fat
the lancet article is hard to just read and says it is a better predictor.
I imagine there are people who think they are ok, who are not, but I can't tell if it goes the other way.
The problem with BMI in practice is that it underdiagnoses obesity. W:H fixes that. If BMI says you're obese, you're very likely to be obese.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877506/#:~:text=BM...
They should use skeletal length instead of height to account for spine curvature disorders.
They should account for the difference between the two to control for comorbidities.