This isn't going to go anywhere on reddit but I'll once again write that these studies are biased. No I'm not saying that people who are actually "obese" are really as healthy as someone who isn't "obese" but you have to realize that ALL of these studies drank the BMI kool aid.

There are two main problems with using BMI as a standard:

• the various physical variations in people including genders, and
• the lack of distinction between fat mass and muscle mass

BMI, for those who don't know is the Body Mass Index and is calculated by: * calculating your height in inches and multiplying by 0.0254 to get meters. Then double that number. * getting your weight in pounds and multiplying by 0.453592 to get kilograms * [weight] / [height] is your BMI with healthy BMI being between 19 and 25.

Now let's do some math for a very popular person like Arnold. He also hangs out on Reddit but I doubt he'll pay attention to my post. Arnold is 6'2 which is ( (6*12+2) * 0.0254 = 1.8796 meters. His off-season weight was 260lb which is (260 * 0.453592) = 117.93392 kilograms.

Using the formula you get: 117.93392 / (1.8796 * 2) = 31.37 BMI.

Ladies and gentlemen, this man is obese!

This would apply to anyone else who has a lot of muscle mass, particularly short people or women who have large breasts.

I'm not saying "and therefore, a man who is 5'5, has a huge gut and weighs 300 pounds is fit". I'm saying there are problems with using BMI as a category. Here is some criticism of the BMI usage.