BMI
Radley Balko at The Agitator has an article in Time this week about obesity and what the government should do about it. His answer, which I agree with fully: "If you aren't responsible for what you put into your mouth, chew and swallow, what's left that you are you responsible for?"
Anyway, he mentions how Time Magazine uses the BMI:
Radley Balko at The Agitator has an article in Time this week about obesity and what the government should do about it. His answer, which I agree with fully: "If you aren't responsible for what you put into your mouth, chew and swallow, what's left that you are you responsible for?"
Anyway, he mentions how Time Magazine uses the BMI:
TIME embraces the Body Mass Index (BMI) throughout the issue as supreme arbiter of "obese" and "overweight," without a hint of skepticism...I've been working out a bit harder recently and eating these protein shakes after my workouts for a couple of months now. And they work. Result: I am now officially overweight according to my BMI. I am 5'11" and now 180 lbs, so that is a 25.1 BMI which just puts me into the overweight category, but I really don't think I look it. The BMI is a just a useless measure if you have any muscle on you at all.
