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Meanwhile plenty of people with overweight BMI are medically healthy
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BMI doesn't properly account for muscle mass. So someone who's 6ft 220lbs would be considered overweight, even if they were 10% body fat and strong as an ox. A great example is Clarence Kennedy. Go check out some of his YouTube highlights from his peak. He's undeniably a freak athlete, and in one video (can't remember which unfortunately) he did mention that even though he was in crazy shape and healthy across the board, his BMI indicated he was "dangerously obese".
I knew a guy in Basic named Naqvi. Dude was massive. He set the chin-up record at 43 midway on a rope on an obs course. Black as night itself, walked like he was part cat, and really hard to sneak up on when sentries punked each other.
BMI probably way over the line with all that meat on him, and he spent the bulk of his time on 'remedial' with the PERIs because of it. Bizarre.