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Originally Posted by k350
BMI is for populations, not individuals. If someone is measuring an individual using BMI, they are doing it wrong.
BMI is what it is, a generic, population estimate.
No one has ever said it is perfect, accurate, etc, it is just a convenient way to measure millions of people.
Latino people are not a distinct race, so have no idea why they would be treated as such.
At the end of the day though, fat is fat, direct causation and correlation shows being fat, overweight, obese, carries more health issues than someone not in these categories. No amount of spinning and word play will ever change that.
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But the bolded is exactly what the medical system is doing. Having individuals calculate their BMI, then make decisions about diet and exercise based on that, is common practice, even by leading medical standard-setting institutes in Europe. Primary care doctors in the US use it fairly routinely.
Honestly, I'm not surprised to hear that much of the developed world is doing it wrong, but how did this happen, if what you say is true?
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