BMI

[PBurke]

I was just digging around and came across a BODY MASS INDEX chart. it says for my height 185 is still too heavy. i disagree. it does not take into account frame size or natural body structure. if we all had the same frame, the chart may work. but we don't. so how do we know what would be a health weight? my doctor even agrees that the 165 that i should be (according to the charts) is way to lean for me. my question is this: how can someone tell what a good healthy weight is? i know we have several guys here that are trainers and in the medical fields. please make some sense of this for me.

[Pshrynk]

Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439

[D.A.L.U.I.]

BMI has, and rightly so, many critics.  For the average guy, it's still much simpler--anything more than an "inch of pinch" around the waist line--measured at the belly button  is too much, and since fat also takes up residence inside the abdominal cavity, if your waist line is larger than your shoulder measurement, you need to work out and diet.  Just remember, working out will increase muscle and muscle weighs a lot more per measured unit than fat, so your weight may stay the same--it's the measurements that count. 

[Timmay]

lay off the jambalaya...lol 

[frostillicus123]

BMI was invented by a dutch sociologist to group people.

BMI takes nothing in consideration besides height weight and a random number which is the same for every person you ask me that bogus math

[slyatlast]

I don't need an index to tell me there's a little too much "mass" to my "body"...