Do you think the BMI should be replaced?

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BMI should be replaced?" /> 
Maybe with something like the tape measure test that the military uses, or the BOD POD?

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It was never actually intended for targeting people to be a certain weight class in order to be considered healthy. 
I learned that in my psych classes.
For be being 5ft6 I should be no more than 143 in weight. When I actually weighed that much I was so thin I looked sickly as fuck. 
It doesn’t account for body types or curves so it’s a no brained most women or people who are different ethnic backgrounds do not fit into that bullshit ass chart. 
Doesn’t account for people with giant boobs or wide hips or big asses.
FUCK THE BMI CHART

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Yes not but with measurements. Everyone holds weight differently and it still doesn’t work with a lot of muscle mass, especially when it comes to women.

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Bmi is a decent indicator of you have a standard body like 90% of the population. Of course it won’t work if you are a body builder or extreme athlete, pregnant, or differently abled. I think everyone KNOWS this but the fat acceptance movement has taken this whole “bmi doesn’t work for everyone” narrative and run away with it. Is it a sole indicator of health? No. But neither are most tools and standards that doctors work with. It’s all a piece of a larger puzzle.

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Well the BMI isn’t great. I’m not familiar enough with the other options to have much of an opinion on them though. 
I understand needing a classification for medication amounts, but I think there’s too much emphasis put on exact numbers in general health care. I’d rather see the focus move away from that altogether into a more general well-being care. If someone is healthy, and feels good it shouldn’t matter so much.

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Most of the population is well represented by BMI. I don’t think it’s inaccurate to be used. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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BMI is highly inaccurate and I'm surprised medical professionals still use it.

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As a health professional I will share that BMI was created over 200 years ago by a mathematician only looking at white, European men and it was indicated at the time that the metric should not be used for health purposes. Also the math doesn’t really make sense; there is really no reason to square a person's height for an equation. Accordingly, BMI should not be applied to other members of the population as it was not tested/validated on women or other racial groups. Additionally, BMI does not taken into account the proportions of muscle mass, bone density, and fat mass. Obviously BMI doesn’t look at any other health factors such as blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen levels, physical fitness, etc.  BMI and weight monitoring in general can be psychologically damaging for many people. I’d recommend tossing out scales and declining weigh ins unless medically necessary.

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Doesn't work for most people especially kids, is inheruantly bias against bigger people, Doesn't measure someone's actual health, gives doctors an excuse to dismiss bigger people without actually helping them. The list goes on it should have never been a thing and shouldn't be allowed to be used.

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The tape measure test is a wildly inaccurate way to measure body fat. It's even worse than the BMI scale. Both need to replaced, I'm not sure with what though.

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Idgaf about BMI so if we were to do away with it, I wouldn’t miss it.

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