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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 doesn't take that much muscle for men to get high BMIs
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.
I'm agreeing. I'm rather fit, low bodyfat %, and my BMI is about 27

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