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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Outlier" data-source="post: 2564053" data-attributes="member: 550046">The inaccuracy of BMI is one of my bandwagons. People who have read what I have said about it in the past may skip this post!We have a variety of different body shapes in humans (and indeed in animals) and carry our weight in different areas as a matter of genetics.  Some of us have waists that are bigger than BMI says is desirable, but also have narrow hips and shoulders, while others have tiny waists and carry their weight across their haunches, others have small waists but broad shoulders and hips, older males in particular may have a bolster of stored fat across the back of their shoulders while retaining a slim waist, and so on. Our genetically inherited body shape cannot be changed. It/we can weigh more or less, but the shape stays constant. Add to this the current mantra that abdominal weight is baaaad, and compare that idea (because that's what it is - an idea) with wild animals that eat natural food and run about a lot, and guess what - when they put weight on, it first arrives along the organs. Anyone who had prepared wild animals for the table sees this. (there is an exception for Sika deer that also carry subcutaneous fat. I can't speak for animals outside the UK). Therefore I suspect that such fat is protective, and actually not a Bad Thing at all. Maybe one day science will catch up with that concept.So - how much note do we take of the theory of BMI?</blockquote>

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