Re: Establishing a \"healthy\" body weight
While BMI is pretty much useless I don't think it is due to the differences between different body types (that is accounted for by the ranges), but because of relative fitness/strength level. The test was designed for measuring sedentary people. If you are sedentary or at least close to it (playing an intramural sport once a week doesn't count) and your bmi is outside of the "healthy" range than 9 times out of 10 you are overweight. It doesn't really matter if you have broad shoulders, that simply doesn't account for enough extra muscle mass to mean you are a healthy weight.
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