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Reminder: BMI under-reports obesity, especially for women (link) (DTP)
| mustard elite legal warrant | 07/16/18 |
| Beta coiffed national | 07/17/18 |
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Date: July 16th, 2018 11:20 PM Author: mustard elite legal warrant https://examine.com/nutrition/how-valid-is-bmi-as-a-measure-of-health-and-obesity/ "BMI has a high rate of false negatives (obese people actually being classified as normal or overweight) encroaching on 50% in some studies, particularly among females. The amount of false positives seen with BMI (non-obese persons with enough lean mass to be classified as obese) is surprisingly small; less than 5% in men and 1% in women according to one study."
what does this mean?
this means that the 75% figure for fat people in the US is a gross under-reporting. as i said before, it's closer to 90%+ of women in the US are fat.
literally 90% |
Date: July 17th, 2018 12:29 AM Author: Beta coiffed national Fascinating article. When people start talking about BMI, they are quick to pull out the example of the athlete with a high BMI and low percent body fat. But according to this, those people are very rare, and it's much more common to have a "normal" BMI but still be obese.
The only caveat is that the NHANES study done by the CDC supposedly uses calipers to estimate fatness rather than BMI, and a lot of those statistics come from those studies. |