BMI is racist
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BMI is a stupid way to measure fat, and im a white dude.
According to BMI there are many athletes who are considered obese and a few who are even considered morbidly obese, this obviously does not work with people who have alot of muscle. Im not a sports player but I grew up drawing buckets of water and hauling logs and rocks. I have a little bit.
That and BMI doesnt factor in skeletal structure which differs not just race to race, but person to person. My wrists are something like 8.2 inches around. The average is 6.5.
Thats why the last family doctor I tried to get before giving up pissed me off trying to convince me all my problems were because I was morbidly obese. Didnt matter that I had lost something like 35 lbs or he was just using a traditional bmi scale. He just kept repeating the same thing over and over. I said see ya and the dumb fuck doesnt even bother to say "oh hey by the way your phosphorous is .47 mmol/dl" I wasnt impressed.
Dumb nigerian closed his practice a year later and I believe he moved back home.
Stop repeating this bullshit. The BMI is a tool that boils obesity down in a way that lets doctors explain it in cold hard numbers. Fat people love to make excuses for how they aren't really fat. Yes, it is very simplified and does not apply all of the time, but when someone is being a dumb fat you can use BMI to rub it in just how fat they are and give them a ballpark for how much weight they need to lose. A 300 lb landwhale will lose 30 lbs and think it's an accomplishment and then celebrate by eating a whole cake because they don't know 270 is still obese.
If you're healthy and athletic, you don't need BMI.
Though you did say Nigerian "doctor" so he probably didn't know that and was just following a script.
BMI is bullshit,and this is coming from a skinny white guy. Weight is a grossly oversimplified metric for health and doesn't take cardio or digestive health into account at all.
I speak from experience, you can have a so-called healthy BMI and yet be severely unhealthy.
Duh. There are diseases that are not obesity related.