BMI is a LIE! #shorts

The Body Mass Index (better known as BMI) has been around for nearly a century, but is this an accurate scale of measurement for finding out if you’re a “healthy” weight?
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*Credits:*
Writers: Amy Roberts & Daniel Zemke
Editor: Axellent
Sound Designer: Yosi Berman
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#BMI #BodyMassIndex #Health #Nutrition #Diet #Lifestyle #Theory #StyleTheory

[crazytiger]

Knowing this makes the inaccuracies in Wii fit’s overweight-underweight scale make so much more sense

[thepositivetheorist]

Y'all ain't wrong, I'm a Psychology major and in my past classes my professors even agreed that the test isn't useful and many in the medical field are agreeing to no longer use the test for weight.

[thecraigs]

Known it for years, my college health teacher ranting almost the whole year about how bad BMI was yet the college still forced him to have it be a large part of his class.

[HisDraws]

The cut at the end was pure comedy gold 😂

[daizy]

Edit: idk how fit or healthy he was considering i barely cared about gym class, but since he’s not actually a professional bodybuilder i imagine it’s not nearly as unhealthy.

I remember my gym teacher in high school talking about BMI and saying that his bmi would say he’s morbidly obese. that man was built like a bodybuilder.

[eternaldreamer]

THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to convince my friends of this for ages and I hate how it’s used by so many diet companies

[bconroy]

Can confirm, BMI are garbage.

My family has been worried that I might be malnourished or anorexic. I am a 6ft dude who used to weight 250 post covid I weighed myself today at 182 lbs. Bmi said that I am slightly over weight but my ribs are exposed and my stomach is completely flat... if anything it's more curving in with my hip bones jutting out.


Moral of the story: BMI more like Big Massive Inconsistency

[thefaceofchlo]

My mom has been preaching this for years. Her poor grandfather basically wasted away in his last years but because he was such a bulky man, even when he was obviously starving, he still registered as 'healthy' on BMI. Absolute BS

[TheHuskyK]

I knew it was BS when I found out that most professional athletes would be considered "morbidly obese" according to BMI yet they are at their athletic peaks with barely any fat.

[Coco-hqns]

Hehe glad to see theory channels still throwing hands.

[runningthemeta]

I love how much energy Amy has in this.

[mitchellbarton]

Saw a dude at MEPS tryina get into the military years ago. Got turned away for being "overweight" because his muscle made the BMI thing say he was.

That was a real eye opener to how BS the whole test is.

[DragonMan]

When the creator says it's inaccurate, you know it's bad.

[FireGuyPig]

A quick run or a swim will tell you if you’re overweight or out of shape

[sokayconnor]

Nah this was one of the tests in highschool that made me develop an ED. My doctors said I was a perfectly healthy weight for my body type, but we had to do a BMI test repeatedly in highschool and the gym teacher would say our results out loud.

[dylanwatts]

5'7" and 160 in high school, which was over weight on the BMI but I am naturally muscular. In fact, at the end of the one weight lifting class I took, I was 170.

BMI has no clue what it is measuring.

[blue_phenix]

It’s insane how much this boosted my confidence

[classy_info]

Got told my BMI was higher and they wanted me to loose weight(5’0 110 pound Highschool AFaB).. they told me this after I had a weight jump(about 15 pounds heavier) within the span of a month because I had finally stopped purging and skipping meals after over 3 years and being underweight most of my childhood life. Being told I was overweight because of my BMI made me do extensive research before I realized it’s not even reliable and I was like “ why tf are we even using this?? “ as someone who wants to become medical professional as an adult.. this thing that isn’t even accurate almost made me completely fall back into my purging and denying food cycle all over again.. and it’s not like I’m actually overweight, I’m perfectly healthy besides 2 physical health issues(1 is genetic) and a plethora of mental health issues.

[Dread_]

The problem is when doctors use BMI as a standard instead of a guideline, BMI can tell doctors certain things at the start, but it is not the only thing on the basis of which they should issue opinions. Even my doctor told me that if we wanted to determine where the right weight is, it would be somewhere on the border of overweight and normal weight.
Of course, if someone's obesity is clearly visible, there should not even be a discussion here.
And as a child, I was always taught ideal weight for adult men is: your height in cm - 100 cm, for women same thing but - 110cm.

[nathanielmartins]

It is not an arbitrator. It's supposed to only be used as a minor clue.