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Re: Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
I just discovered that the CDC has a pretty good page addressing the question of BMI to BF% correlations, with citations5 -
Re: Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
You really didn't understand anything in my post, did you? Arnold was statistically obese according to BMI due to external factors totally under his control. That doesn't make him a statistical outli…6 -
Re: Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
Numbers confirmed, actually over confirmed. The writers apparently made adjustments in the background to account for differences in population sizes, but the final paper only contains the adjusted es…1 -
Re: Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
I wonder if the fact that the only age groups for which BF% seems to be more permissive than BMI for both genders is "middle age" (40-70) contributes to why so many people here in particula…2 -
Re: Is every single body in the world intended to be within the so-called healthy BMI range?
f-it, heres for men and women, the whole table 4, with Ideal Weight percentages calculated. BMI is more forgiving than BF% for both men and women for the majority of age groups2