[victork2]

Before complaining about "wah wah that's BMI, BMI sucks" please think twice. Everybody knows it's BMI, BMI is a rough measurement of your ratio height to weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and...

"The medical establishment has acknowledged major shortcomings of BMI.[...] found that BMI-defined obesity was present in 21% of men and 31% of women. Using body fat percentages (BF%), however, BF%-defined obesity was found in 50% of men and 62% of women."

Take it as a statistical game and stop getting self conscious about it.

Note also: If you are very muscular with a crazy BMI despite no fat it's not healthy either.

[vonmoltke]

Note also: If you are very muscular with a crazy BMI despite no fat it's not healthy either.

I hear this claim parroted quite a bit. I haven't seen any evidence of this in medical literature, though, except in cases of really big guys like NFL lineman. Do you have any references for the claim?

[gaius]

No "everyone" doesn't know that BMI is discredited, the BBC should have put a huge disclaimer on it saying "these numbers are nothing to do with how healthy you are, in fact they are completely meaningless".

[victork2]

I like how I got downvoted. Please read everything that is on the website:

The BBC say it's an estimate, with a link on estimate leading to its definition and a disclaimer about BMI.

They never say that you are fatter or slimmer than the rest of the population but they talk about your BMI and your BMI only, just a quote:

"You have a lower BMI than 88% of males aged 15-29 in your country"

"You have a lower BMI than 54% of males aged 15-29 in the world"

I really don't see anything about weight or any scheme to make you think you're fat if you have a high BMI from the BBC like some imply in the comments. It's very funny how hyper defensive everybody gets around the BMI thing, especially the ones who don't have the "right" BMI.