I'm confused, isn't this already widely known? The BMI scale makes no distinction between fat and muscle, and muscle is twice as dense. When the scale was invented, the creator had no intention to make it a medical tool and it only studied the weight of white men within a certain age group. When it got adopted for medical research, it was intended to only be a measure of populations not individuals.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's sadly still used widely in the US... Many providers have brought up BMI with my clients when I was a caseworker for years, and sometimes I'd ask the provider questions to get them to admit it's limitations in front of my clients when I felt it was appropriate. Sometimes a BMI rating is only useful in lowering someone's self-esteem...

[–] bev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm proud of you for stepping up when you could. It's sad though that we still need to dispell it. In school it felt synonymous with shame.

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