BMI is racist
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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.