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Topic	Obesity among all US adults reaches all-time high: 40%
frozenshock 10/13/17 4:49:49 PM #20:	Sonic Cannon posted... frozenshock posted... Are those numbers based purely on BMI? If so that's crap because you can be fit and lean and still be considered "obese" because of your BMI because you have more muscle mass This is the most tired argument that people always wheel out when these stats are published. BMI is not "crap" for this purpose; it's actually the most appropriate application of BMI data to count it across a large group of people. At a population level, the people you're talking about make a tiny proportion of the population. No, it's not just a tiny proportion of the population. Literally every tall person and every short person will get inaccurate results from BMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations --- I don't hate people, people hate me. <cite>frozenshock posted [p:888376869] in Obesity am... [t:75875726]...</cite> <quote><cite>Sonic Cannon posted...</cite> <quote><cite>frozenshock posted...</cite> <quote>Are those numbers based purely on BMI? If so that's crap because you can be fit and lean and still be considered "obese" because of your BMI because you have more muscle mass</quote> This is the most tired argument that people always wheel out when these stats are published. BMI is not "crap" for this purpose; it's actually the most appropriate application of BMI data to count it across a large group of people. At a population level, the people you're talking about make a tiny proportion of the population.</quote> No, it's not just a tiny proportion of the population. Literally every tall person and every short person will get inaccurate results from BMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations --- I don't hate people, people hate me.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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