BMI

From what I know, BMI is not a good measure for everyone. Try this link and see if you think this would be more suitable for you:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/113959-alternatives-bmi/

Yeah its totally inaccurate because my brother is a gym rat. He's in there ever single day for 2 hours (minimum) working a different set of muscles everyday and his BMI says he's overweight. I wouldn't worry about that. You are at a healthy weight when you look in the mirror and realize you love the way you look, not when a chart says you are.

The BMI is a tool to indicate general health parameters for VERY large groups of people. If you took the entire population of the United States I believe that the BMI calculator would be relatively accurate in estimating who does and who doesn't have weight related health issues.

That said, for individuals, it is often not a good estimator of health parameters. People are different. Using a BMI to tell you whether or not you are healthy is looking at one tiny aspect of a big picture and using it to draw conclusion about the entire situation. Of course it's potentially misleading. Since you don't only know your BMI your doctor/trainer can help you look at the other pieces of the puzzle. When that is not possible (like for very large numbers of people) BMI is a next best indicator.

I think BMI is a generally good tool, unless you have a significant amount of muscle. I think women rarely has that much muscle to the BMI to be really wrong, but for man it is a different story.
Man who does significant amount of weight training or have a heavy physical job easily can build great amount of muscle mass that would mistakenly put them into overweight or even obese category by the BMI.

according to my Dr, its propaganda, another way for Government to put a label on us.......

Id ignore it, most people would look anorexic if they weighed what the chart states for their size and weight.........

Yes, statistical methods are meant to do that and actually crucial for the general functioning of economic and information systems.

Also, the range for healthy weights is actually quite large. I am at a healthy BMI and do not look "anorexic." Blanket dismissing the BMI as a tool in that way is no smarter than allowing it to tell you how healthy are you.

Grrr.... BMI. My Arch Nemesis. Sorry to rant but its time to take it out and put it to rest already.

I personally (as an "obese person" with a BMI of 30) think BMI is junk and is only an estimation based upon a completely average person.... They need to throw it away as a system. Think about it... how can you arbitrarily measure health based on so few measurments?

According to BMI... Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints is OBESE... Take a look at a picture of Reggie if you don't believe me or know who he is. You will see what I mean immediately. You can find a picture here... http://coolspotters.com/athletes/reggie-bush

BMI is a skewed calculation that was created back in the 1800's and was adopted by the insurance industry. Sadly, Doctors today still use it as standard of determining health (even though most know it's wrong). BMI has nothing to do with muscle mass, frame size (skeletal size) or general health etc... it is simply based on averages. Are you completely average? i.e. do you fit into the ideal measurements of an average person? I don't know anyone who does.

A better approach is to determine your health based upon percentage of body fat. Body fat can be determined using immersion testing, the Bod Pod, Resistance scales, or can be also be determined based on measurements and calculations (using calipers and tape measurements)

Oh... as for me being OBESE... Remember my BMI rating of 30? I am 5'11, weigh under 220 and wear a size 34 pants. I run 40-45 Km per week and have approximately 18% body fat which is slightly better than an average person.

Hope this clarifies how inaccurate BMI can be.