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People say that the BMI scale is bogus. How true is that, health experts? (www.medicalnewstoday.com)

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As I understand it, the current medical consensus is that fat protects muscle, and has health benefits when it is in moderation, but increases risks for bad outcomes when in excess. And muscle weighs more than fat, and aside from heart disease, generally protects against death of all causes. If muscle is generally good, and fat is good in moderation, why do we still popularly conflate skinniness as healthiness?

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[–] fjpinns@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, generally in science, things that are seen as true are true in all cases, unless in express exception. If weight per unit of height is the independent variable, and health outcomes are the independent variable, the unexplained inconsistencies tell a story that would accept the null hypothesis in all cases, except if we arbitrarily say "well it doesn't work for really muscular people, or really tall people" (It also doesn't work for little people, whose oppression lead this conversation away from them and towards the tall folk who it equally doesn't work for, but I feel its necessary they are mentioned and space is held for them in this conversation)