Desperate Times…

call for desperate measures.

I thought this was mostly hilarious. But the guy gave is own dimensions (5′11, 230 pounds) and said he might be considered obese. Well I am 5′9 250 pounds. I know the BMI says I’m obese, that is old news. I would need to weigh 202 pounds before I would be considered overweight and I would need to weigh 165 to be at a normal weight, or I could become seven feet tall.

In recent years America has been told how fat we are, but in 1998 the threshold shifted to a lower weight standard. Medicine should be above this, but it seems that it is going along with the “thin is in” sort of movement in our popular culture.

Please do not misunderstand me. I know I need to lose weight, so do most Americans. But this system does not account for muscle mass at all. 165 pounds is not a healthy weight for me.