Reply to post: Re: Moving the goals?

Lies, damn pies and obesity statistics: We're NOT a nation of fatties

Tom 38

Re: Moving the goals?

Obese is defined (in these wailing articles) strictly by BMI.

BMI is not meant to be a personal indicator of health, it is meant to be a way of grouping huge numbers of people for statistically similar outcomes.

For you personally, BMI 30 is not really obese, but for all people with BMI 30, you are a statistical outlier. This doesn't mean that BMI is not a useful macro measurement, but that it is not particularly useful for you.

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