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by annirun
1995 days ago
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Accurate body fat tests either require expensive equipment or training to use. The inaccurate method those cheap bathroom scales use would probably be good enough to detect trends but if we're just going to detect trends: why not stick with BMI that's accurate enough for that purpose and way cheaper/easier to use? There aren't that many people with overweight BMIs that aren't overweight. Maybe it could be slightly better to change methods, but it's not like it would be orders of magnitude better. -Someone with a BMI of 28 (smack in the middle of overweight) and a 6pack |
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I agree, that's why I think it's lazy and disingenuous. Look how much we fund global warming research. But when it comes to calling something a "national health crisis," we don't even bother and take something invented around the time of Andrew Jackson's administration. Good enough, right?
>There aren't that many people with overweight BMIs that aren't overweight.
How many people would you estimate have overweight BMI's aren't overweight? How are you even defining overweight? See how it's a soft metric? Countries basing taxation and policy on this stuff.
You are overweight and part of the national health crisis, period. No discussion because the BMI doesn't allow it.