BMI

“Nice night for a walk.”
---The Terminator

The obesity problem is an issue because being over-weight leads to more chances of diabetes and also leads to heart risks. The obesity problem needs to be measured in the correct way though. BMI, Body-Mass Index, is a joke.
It is an easy way to get extremely inaccurate results fast. That’s how America works doesn’t it?

A BMI test just measures body-weight to height ratio. This test is an assumption that the extra mass per height is FAT. If this were true every player in the NFL would be on the way to the morgue due to his extreme obesity. You might be saying “Duh!” right now, but most people do not know this.




I have tested myself on a BMI calculator as well. According to it I have a BMI of 30.6, OBESE by that standard. There is a large margin of error in calculating obesity with some of these tests. Your average P.E. teacher does not understand these fallacies. If students were subjected to a Body-fat assessment the results would be more accurate. A better way to approach this would be to use a body fat caliper. It is more reliable that a BMI test by far. Some one with experience can easily help by using a caliper.


This might cause a younger person to lose some confidence and maybe start feeling upset. You have to be delicate with certain age groups in the way you talk to them about “fat”.