Closet Genious wrote:
shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
BMI is just putting your height and weight in one number.
two people could be the same height and weight and one could be fat while the other muscular.
percent body fat is a better measurement.
yeah i tried to explain that to the community college licensed clinical social worker.
she was not receptive. maybe she did not know what a percent was.
she ought to get fired.
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BMI is useless imo.
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allegedly BMI is misleading for extremely tall men and extremely short women. and the pregnant.
BMI is not as useful as it claims to be. but in some cases it could serve a function.
actually i think whoever invented BMI wanted to come up with a method of measuring
density
. and density could be useful.
but of course, the irregular shape of the human body. without fluid displacement it is hard to measure the volume of the human body.
so they just simplify it with one dimension: height.