Why the BMI is a crock of...well, you get the idea

Published: July 19, 2007, 1:56 pm

I read this article today about the growing number of people who are overweight or obese. This really ticked me off.If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.I'm overweight. In fact, according to the BMI calculations, I'm obese. I'm also losing weight, having dropped 20 pounds in the last three weeks. What ticks me off is that according to the BMI calculations, I was overweight when I graduated from high school, and will probably never get below their measurement for obese. Why? Because I'm naturally muscular (yes, it's under the fat right now) and have a very large frame. When I graduated high school I weighed 190 pounds. I'm 5'10" tall. That puts me at the upper range of the overweight category. A year or so after graduating, I hit 210, which makes me obese. During high school, I played sports all the time and lifted weights. I was not even

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