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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
... At 6', 157# would give you a BMI of 21.3, which is right in the middle of what the CDC designates as the normal range. To be underweight, you'd need to weigh less than 137#. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm IMHO, all that shows is how silly the whole BMI thing is. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, of course, but I simply cannot see being 138 pounds and six feet tall as healthy. IMHO, that's heading into anorexic territory. IMHO, one of the problems with the BMI is that it relates weight with the square of your height, not the cube. But of course, volume increases as the cube, not the square (and weight is closely related to volume). So, the taller you are, the skinnier you have to be, proportionally speaking, in order to stay within the approved BMI range. Few people would describe me as overly skinny anymore, but most would (foolishly ![]() the middle I've been carrying. Yet, according to the BMI calculation, I'm well into "Overweight" territory at 26.2. For me to be smack in the middle of the "Normal" range, I'd have to get my weight *below* my late teenage weight, when I *was* downright skin and bones. Pete |
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