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Originally Posted by chemgear
It's the same reason you see BMI complaints all the time. Sure, there are rare specific cases that the measurement may not fit or evaluate quite well. But people use that to try to dismiss the fact that the number keeps growing and growing and growing.
It's like standing inside your home complaining that the wallpaper on the one wall doesn't match that well with the lamp - when your entire house is in fact full engulfed in flames and is starting to slide off the side of a cliff. You might be right but you're missing the big picture.
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Originally Posted by V
I think it's well established that BMI is a terrible metric for actual athletes.
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Yup, agree with you there.
The problem isn't that BMI isn't universally applicable for every single individual case. It's that the BMI number keeps growing and growing as people get fatter and fatter and fatter.