chickenfeet

BMI calculations are only slightly more sophisticated than those awful height/weight charts that were used by insurance companies thirty years ago. There is no accommodation of age, muscle mass, or bone density, or a general level of overall fitness. At my most recent physical, the nurse weighed me and calculated my BMI and I made her black out the BMI number on my file. It's a stupid caculation that should be done away with, as it is useless at its best and harmful at its worst.