BMI is a scam! Total joke and waste of time. It is meant to be applied to large groups of people and it is still shit because it averages everything out.
The current Mr Olympia is obese by that stupid metric.
For most normal people, it works.
Body Fat % is a much more important stat than BMI. BMI is nothing more than weight divided by height. It completely ignores muscle is heavier than fat. It is as useless as calories in < calories out, never mind that a calorie used to be used to determine a locomotive's fuel efficiency/potential.
You’re not wrong, but for those simply trying to lose weight, calories in/calories out and BMI work…it’s an 80% solution. No, it doesn’t tell the whole story, but it gets them reading.
I saw a stat yesterday suggesting people underestimate their caloric intake by 30-50%. It’s for people like that who will benefit from overly simplified, but easily understood mechanisms.
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