[LMB] OT: Fat Kids?
WalterStuartBushell
proto at panix.com
Sun Dec 19 22:42:03 GMT 2021
> On Dec 19, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Marc Wilson <marc.wilson at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Perhaps.
>
> BMI is a bit of a "one-club golf" approach to health anyway; it takes no
> account of body type, fitness, lifestyle etc.
>
> As a reductio-ad-absurdam example, multiple decathlon gold medallist
> Daley Thompson is "morbidly obese" according to the standard
> height/weight charts. I’ve seen more fat on a butcher's pencil.
BMI is part of the one size fits none of doctors and nutritionists.
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