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I'm "obese" my medical standards but wear a size men's medium with a 34 waist simply because I workout a lot. BMI is a terrible estimator for anyone that lifts heavy weights. I can still run a mile in under 8 minutes too.

I'm always shocked the medical community still uses BMI in 2022.

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BMI is not useful as an individual metric, but as a population-wide average.

I don't think anyone would argue that you should lose weight because your BMI is high, nor does anyone believe that the obesity epidemic in America is due to vast swaths of the population suddenly becoming powerlifters.

According to CDC’s definition Joe Biden is overweight with a BMI of 25.

If you see him without a suit he definitely has a belly, so classifying him as very slightly overweight seems correct?

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