Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist, devised the basis of the BMI between 1830 and 1850 as he developed what he called “social physics”.[3] Quetelet himself never intended for the index, then called the Quetelet Index, to be used as a means of medical assessment.
Keys explicitly judged BMI as appropriate for population studies and inappropriate for individual evaluation. Nevertheless, due to its simplicity, it has come to be widely used for preliminary diagnoses.
The original data set is from mostly adult European men that was then generalized as applying to all humans. Spoiler alert: It does not.
Whether bmi is wholly accurate or not is not my argument, being fat is unhealthy, plain and simple. If you don't agree, then you don't belong here at all
Yep, I had to get body fat measured periodically when I was in the military.
The vast majority just did height/weight for BMI, and lots of people that shouldnt have passed did so easily.
But I’m ridiculously tall with shoulders as wide as a doorway. So id have to get “roped and choked” where they measure your waist and neck. Still not very accurate, but at least it wasn’t telling me I was obese during the brief period of my life I had visible abs.
But more importantly:
Fuck people like OP.
I literally never see the posts/comments these incels complain about, but these stupid subs always show up eventually.
I think a lot of the accounts like OP’s are just overweight themselves with a humiliation fetish. It makes more sense than healthy people being so mad about it
Like those guys that send their microdick pics to women on social media hoping to be insulted.
I think a lot of the accounts like OP’s are just overweight themselves with a humiliation fetish.
i am a fat woman who fell victim to HAES and destroyed my health believing it. i got out of it and am trying to improve. there's nothing sexual about it. if you don't like the posts, don't come to the community. simple as
Also, you, a man who was in the military and has a lot of muscles, are not comparable to fat 50% body fat women who claim BMI is inaccurate. You are not the average, an athlete who is obese by BMI standards is not the average.
If your BMI is a little over/under, maybe try getting a more accurate assessment. If your BMI is 40 or higher then you should lose some weight because you’re unhealthy.
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