Comment on Time to Say Goodbye to the B.M.I.?

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mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

BMI is specifically not an amazing metric, for populations or individual people. The article goes into its flaws at length, but to summarize :

Its based entirely on white men, with no demographic data for women or POC. It also fails utterly to account for muscle, so it classifies many very fit people as obese.

Its only use is that it’s been in use for so long it can be used as a historical measurement to compare generations to each other.

Complicated math in the age of smartphones is a non issue. It’s also not required if you do the simple thing I discussed above.

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