A recent article in the Daily Mail suggested BMI was not a good measure of health?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401109&in_page_id=1770

If Jonah Lomu has a BMI of 32 but is not considered clinically obese then there must be a problem with the system. I reckon most rugby players would call him Fatty Fatty FAT FAT in the changing rooms.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I really dont agree with that. Because if it was true that would mean that all the rugby people would be classed as abese and how can they be

Answer 2

It doesn't measure stuff like cancer, of fitness. Just fatness. I've got a lowish BMI, but I'm far from fit. Muscle weighs more than fat anyway.

Answer 3

It is not an indicator of health

Just fat

You can be fat and healthy

Answer 4

Well the Daily Mail get their knickers in a knot about every little thing, so I'd take what they say with a pinch of salt. It's a scaremongering rag for old biddies and the braindead. And for the record, they were wrong about the MMR jab. So there.

And Jonah Lomu isn't fat, he's built like a brick shitehouse and there's a difference.

Answer 5

BMI is a very crude assessment. I know a number of people who go to my gym, are fatter than me (not that I am fat) but who are fitter.

Surely fitness is the over-riding factor people should look at, is it not?

Answer 6

The Daily Mail is not a good measurement of a newspaper.

Answer 7

Wait, they've only just picked up on this? This was well documented YEARS ago, Matthew Pinsent being the "obese" sportsman in question..

Answer 8

I don't think many players would call him "Fatty Fatty FAT FAT" as he's double most peoples' size