Why does BMI have units of kg/m^2 when we are three dimensional? Wouldn’t kg/m^3 or g/cm^3 be more accurate?
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Your width would correlate more with how fat you are which is kind of what we are trying to work out. Also there isn’t an easy way of working out an intrinsic width.
I’m sure you could have a much better measure using a dexa scan that takes into account lots of measures. But that would be applicable to almost no one, since very few people can afford regular dexa scans.
BMI isn’t perfect but it’s a really good measure that can be easily applied to everyone.
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