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BMI, Both-Might-Indicate lots of muscles or fat stores. I can see how someone lugging lots of muscle mass around would want their own number - a BMI is either a credit score or a debt score, its absolute value means nothing. What if we did started to put a + or - in front of the number, if there was more muscle than fat being stored.

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> I can see how someone lugging lots of muscle mass around would want their own number

Healthy people with high BMI are not how they are by accident, they don't care about their BMI because they know why it's high and they know it's not an issue

Yeah and this also affects like what...2% of people? It is indeed a non-issue that people keep marshalling in when this topic comes up.

exactly. the number of people who have "high BMI" due to muscle mass and general fitness is utterly trivial when compared to number who are straight up fat.

it's a nothingburger; whether you use BMI or Body Roundness or whatever, most USA-ians are fat as hell.

> What if we did started to put a + or - in front of the number

Not how a metric centred around 22.5 works.

Ok what if I used a different symbol with no mathematical alignment?

> what if I used a different symbol with no mathematical alignment?

A nonsense symbol?

The metrics you're looking for are body fat and muscle mass.

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