– Why do doctors care so much about your BMI when it’s has been proven to be such a flawed metric for ones actual health?
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I actually asked this to my doctor last time I went for a checkup. It turns out that it *is* a good metric, as long you have regular body proportions (i.e. you’re not properly muscular or freakishly broad)
So from a scientific point of view it’s technically flawed because it can’t be applied to a number of demographics, but from a practical perspective the doctor can just view the patient and determine if they are regular enough to be measured through BMI.
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