Quote (RedFromWinter @ 10 Mar 2021 05:59)
Being a bodybuilder or athlete does not mean you are 'healthy' when you still have a obese BMI. It may be prefect form to be optimal in a sport, but its in no way 'healthy' for your cardiovascular system to carry all the extra fat/muscle.
The entire point is that BMI is a useless way to measure health. An athlete with a perfect diet and workout regimen who is six foot tall and weighs 265 pounds, and has a body fat percentage of 4% is not only healthy, but far more healthy than those who fall within the "perfect" weight zones for that height. Yet their BMI would show as 35.9 (Obese).
Health has far more to do with diet, exercise, and lack of recreational drug use (including tobacco and alcohol) than with arbitrary height vs weight numbers. This is not even a question, it's known and has been known by health experts worldwide for as long as the BMI scale has existed. The only reason BMI is still referred to is it's the only "easy" way to statistically calculate how nations are doing as far as general health goes.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Mar 10 2021 08:06am