John Luif

This has been on my shitlist for some time and recently it came up again while taking a health assessment test to get cheaper insurance rates.  For those of you who do not know what BMI is, it is a measure of body fat based on height and weight.  If the above statement sounds stupid well it is.  By BMI standards all body builders are obese.  Considering that some body builders reach as low as 3% body fat (which is actually unhealthy) they would still be considered obese by BMI.

So you may say that using body builders as an example is a special case scenario.  There are so many special cases out there that is makes BMI a totally inaccurate number.  BMI is absolutely wrong and is a worthless measure that should not be used as a measure of anything.