Quote Originally Posted by Hmac View Post
Body Mass Index is only the most crude of fitness tools. It was developed not as a screen for the general population but for demonstrating degree of obesity in the obese. It has value in the bariatric surgery community, not in the general fitness community.
Truth, the problem is, instead of seeing it as the crude screening tool it is, it's been adopted as gold standard by all manner of places and people who should know better and has been a source of real problems and major PITA for all manner of people who can run circles around the dope who just informed them they are obese according to the BMI.