My bad, “society that bases too much on calculus and not enough on statistics” - while shitting on a statistic discovered and worked upon from 1850 while citing what fits the anti dr, anti scientists “i know better without having the slightest ideea what the numbers I’m ready represent” is pretty much explanatory to why. Also the real reason why that number is the way it is isn’t because false results, look down the street and tell me 3/5 people aren’t fat…

Maybe someone hurt him with the BMI? I mean you need serious mental gymnastics to go over the point and overcomplicate a basic information that much… “incorrect use of BMI” and the whole study thing really nailed it for me, from where I am only fatasses that can’t cope with being fat say crap like that. Look I know this sounds hard but the people who made this stuff know a lot better than someone on reddit who is fixating on a borderline score that would give a false pozitive/negative, really man? Really? You think people with a bmi of 25.2 are going to go insane because they are classed as overweight (25-30 means overweight, like in a little bit over? not obese or going to die just a little fluffy?). I hope in the next comments he gets what screening test actually means and stop saying 25-30 is obese, please link me where cdc says that on the BMI 25 is obese not overweight also that obesity starts at 25 not 30 (TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS) and I’m giving in my practice licence tomorrow morning. Please tell me all studies are perfect and please tell me a serious study where if there even aren’t pictures you don’t have staff to evaluate the subjects.

Uh a BMI of 25 is the cut off where you are no longer in the normal range and get overweight and not obese, obesity starts at a BMI of 30. The BMI represents a way to quntify risks a person may have based on their weight, not the probability of them “being obese”, the article mashed up overweight and obesity because of the recent trends of getting fatter and having more people with higher BMI (at least in europe). Also you didn’t finish your sentence “and having a bmi lower than that number” what?