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Originally Posted by bizaro86
140-189 lbs is the BMI recommended weight range for my height, which is absolute nonsense. It's almost like human health can't be curve fit into a quadratic equation.
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I don't think anyone ever has used BMI as an absolute though. People with higher muscle ratios can certainly be healthy with a BMI over 25.0, that's always been a caveat. The opposite holds true with skinny-fat people who are 24.9 but no muscle and all fat, likely being unhealther than just the standard person at 26. It's a ballpark range for the average person. If you really want to get into the thick of things, you need to know body fat, skeletal structure density etc.