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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
It's not a great measure when you are looking at the line between normal and overweight for athletes with high muscle content. It is a VERY good measure of the level of obesity. You aren't going to find a healthy athlete with a BMI over 30. As for extreme weight lifters, they usually are over weight and can be obese.
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An unfit girl, for instance, that still looks thin to normal can have a high BMI. (Mine when I was 19 was very high for my age range and I was a size 4...but ate McDonald's every day because I could get away with it and never exercised, so my muscle to fat ratio was extremely low. Any meat I had on my bones was skin and pure fat.) I think they should require everyone to take it...I was required to take health and one 1 hour activity class and if it weren't for that I'd probably still avoid exercising and wouldn't have adjusted my eating habits.
They should NOT look at the line for athletes. I will never have the BMI of an athlete, but I can aim to be healthy in as many ways as possible (which is about food and exercise, not just one or the other). And no one should HAVE to have the BMI of an extremely fit athlete. Healthy and normal is a good goal to have.
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