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Originally Posted by Stealhead
I would not say that it measures mass which would include muscle and bone as well as fat so if you had a lot of muscle mass BMI alone would be incorrect.It is a means of measuring but not the only one and it does not cover all things.You could have a good BMI and have a crap load of bad cholesterol in your body and still have a heart attack.That being said for most people if they have a low BMI they more than likely are skinny as a rail and if they have a high one are as fat as William H. Taft with a dollop of sour cream.
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Exactly. Of course the BMI will say that a weight lifter is obese - but the weight lifter knows he's in good shape just by looking in the mirror, so he shouldn't even bother with it. It's useful for the rest of us, who are overweight.