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Originally Posted by V
Maybe it's in the article, but what classifies as overweight? I'm in the best shape I will probably ever be in for the rest of my life (with little to no muscle mass), and I'm considered overweight on the BMI, so I would agree that 5% or less would be able to escape that overweight or obese band once they're in it.
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BMI is terrible, mind you its a gauge that works for many but a significant number its utterly useless. Healthy and unhealthy are better markers, there are many people 20 pounds "overweight" that are much healthier than someone who is skinny.
But in our society if you put a skinny person next to someone with a belly its immediately assumed one is healthy and the other is unhealthy, which is quite often wrong.