– 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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– 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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It’s a way to say “you are damn fat lose some weight” without offending people “you have a high BMI and think we need to do something about that perhaps…”

it’s a flawed metric but that’s why it works.