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Time to double down on the metric system (www.cbc.ca)
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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Congrats on the healthy BMI, and on using the correct scale!

By my book, you're now an EU citizen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

BMI was made by an statistician who never intended it to be used as a means of medical assessment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What? BMI > 30 is the literal definition of obesity.

It's a tool, and it serves a purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Basically just because it's easier to measure. In reality, visceral fat is the thing they worry about, but you can't run everyone through an MRI just for that.

That being said, having a really high BMI is definitely bad. Saying that you're healthy at 50 is taking a ~~mile~~ kilometer when given a centimeter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The articles first line starts with:

Body mass index (BMI) is an anthropometric index that is commonly used in the medical setting and is a factor in assessing various disease risks

If it's good enough for doctors, it's good enough for me. Wake me up when something else takes its place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Body mass index (BMI) is an anthropometric index that is commonly used in the medical setting and is a factor in assessing various disease risks but its origins are unknown by many. More importantly, BMI does not properly assess body fat percentage and muscle mass or distinguish abdominal fat from gluteofemoral fat, which is important to note because abdominal fat is associated with insulin resistance, metabolic disease, and cardiovascular complications. Using a less accurate index to assess the relationship between weight and disease risk is conceptually invalid because the use of BMI ultimately trickles into patient treatment, preventive medicine, and overall health outcomes.

Completing the quote we find that there is a more important aspect to BMI than its common use.