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by DanBC 3550 days ago
> BMI has been raked over the coals (new and old methods) for being wildly inaccurate for anyone outside of a conditional range.

No it hasn't.

BMI doesn't work for three groups of people: it makes very tall or very athletic people think they're fatter than they are, and it makes very short people think they're thinner than they are. But, as GP says, that's less than 5% of the population.