A recent article in the Daily Mail suggested BMI was not a good measure of health?

Question:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...

If Jonah Lomu has a BMI of 32 but is not considered clinically obese then there must be a problem with the system. I reckon most rugby players would call him Fatty Fatty FAT FAT in the changing rooms.

What do you think?

Answers:

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I don't think many players would call him "Fatty Fatty FAT FAT" as he's double most peoples' size

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It is not an indicator of health
Just fat
You can be fat and healthy

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Wait, they've only just picked up on this? This was well documented YEARS ago, Matthew Pinsent being the "obese" sportsman in question..

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BMI is a very crude assessment. I know a number of people who go to my gym, are fatter than me (not that I am fat) but who are fitter.

Surely fitness is the over-riding factor people should look at, is it not?

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The Daily Mail is not a good measurement of a newspaper.

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Well the Daily Mail get their knickers in a knot about every little thing, so I'd take what they say with a pinch of salt. It's a scaremongering rag for old biddies and the braindead. And for the record, they were wrong about the MMR jab. So there.

And Jonah Lomu isn't fat, he's built like a brick shitehouse and there's a difference.

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It doesn't measure stuff like cancer, of fitness. Just fatness. I've got a lowish BMI, but I'm far from fit. Muscle weighs more than fat anyway.

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I really dont agree with that. Because if it was true that would mean that all the rugby people would be classed as abese and how can they be

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