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[–] Oveass 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

What a fatlogic article

Sure BMI doesnt accurately portray Dwayne johnson, but it will correctly get 99,9% of everybody else right. To state "obesity rates might not be as bad as portrayed" on that claim is ridiculous

Isn't Reuters reputable? Why are they caving for such nonsense? Editor didn't proofread?

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[–] mybrotherans 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

They love to ignore that it's actually worse when accounting for body fat percentage. BMI is very forgiving.

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[–] GutterTrash 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

After taking some courses on nutrition and other health sciences, one key factor that links obesity and health issues is central adiposity, aka the abdominal fat, aka the bad kind when in huge quantities. Most fat logicians will go out of their way to deligitimize BMI by finding the most strawman excuses while completely ignoring the consequences of excessive visceral fat.

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[–] NothingExtra ago 

Yes this part:

One drawback of using BMI is that it doesn’t distinguish between muscle and fat. Therefore, obesity rates might not have been as high as they appeared, particularly among the adults.

Made me wonder who on earth wrote this article, and why they want to protect fee-fees. It's damn wel clear it isn't body builders skewing the stats here.