Thursday, May 17, 2018

The hair splitters, or excuse finders? Why BMI is not BS

 Now Watch!  BMI is BS 
Screams a headline 
 articles written by so called " Science Correspondents" who have absolutely no grounding  in science churn out articles based  on a sliver of truth and  a lot of hot air and  real  BS to discredit  BMI.

yes agreed if you are a professional football player,a wrestler,a bodybuilder or in general big boned and well muscled BMI does not apply to you. 

But if you weight  300 + pounds have  diabetes ,hypertension and  hyperlipidemia BMI is one of the  easiest rough screening tool 
when the whole American population has no idea what a healthy weight is 

Dear Erin Brodwin,
writing  articles based on  complex  scientific publication to divert attention from the raging  epidemic of Obesity in USA is a great disservice.

I hope  they taught at least that much in the school of Journalism which you took a degree from

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