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**UriyVlasov** · 07-13-2012, 08:52 PM

I don't have time to google, but to get BMI I'm pretty sure you actually have to measure fat, not just weight/height/age.

No, BMI is a tool invented a couple of centuries ago by a statistician to measure differences amongst populations, not individuals. Our modern concerns of fat/muscle ratios were never a part of it. It's a blunt tool at best. I mean, the majority of us don't need our BMI number to know when we're carrying flab and as pointed out, heavily-muscles athletes and so on ie. outliers simply aren't served by the metric at all.

PS. Apparently (using my highly scientific Guess Your Weight method) I'm Bosnian.

07-13-2012, 08:52 PM	#8
UriyVlasov Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	I don't have time to google, but to get BMI I'm pretty sure you actually have to measure fat, not just weight/height/age. No, BMI is a tool invented a couple of centuries ago by a statistician to measure differences amongst populations, not individuals. Our modern concerns of fat/muscle ratios were never a part of it. It's a blunt tool at best. I mean, the majority of us don't need our BMI number to know when we're carrying flab and as pointed out, heavily-muscles athletes and so on ie. outliers simply aren't served by the metric at all. PS. Apparently (using my highly scientific Guess Your Weight method) I'm Bosnian.
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