[ExI] Problems with the BMI

[spike]

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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Max More
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:44 PM
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> Subject: [ExI] Problems with the BMI
> 
> I have a couple of new blog posts recently. The last but one 
> was: "6 Ways to Mismanage Risk".
> 
> I've just posted another one on the flaws in the Body Mass Index: 
> "BMI: Badly Misleading Information"
> http://strategicphilosophy.blogspot.com/2009/07/bmi-badly-misl
eading-information.html
> 
> This is a good example of a measure being used in public 
> policy making (as well as personal life) that clearly 
> violates the Proactionary Principle.
> 
> Max
>

Thanks for the article Max, very thought-provoking.  I went to the exercise
gym years ago and they tried to get a body fat estimate using that skin
pinch caliper thingy, didn't work.  It has always pissed me offwardly to
have my health risk estimated upwards for having a BMI in the 17s.  They
tell me I would be too thin to be a fashion model in Paris.  OK fine then, I
will eschew that profession thankyouverymuch.  But I have yet to have an
actual doctor explain to me: for what actual disease I am at greater risk by
being a bonemeister?  Well, anyone please?  What am I going to catch from
it?  Softening of the arteries?  Monobetes?  What?

spike