Maybe my favorite example of all this: Every single world-class powerlifter (and most strength-based athletes generally) are "obese" by traditional weight tracking measures, sometimes "morbidly" so. Which is *ludicrous*.
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Yep, I mean that fact alone should be enough to remove body weight as a measure of health not only on an individual level, but even on populations. Everyone has a unique body composition!
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Even when people wave that off as "you're not a professional athlete though", they usually shut up when I tell them that at my height and build (5'2, stocky), I would have to have *0% body fat* to have a "healthy" BMI
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