Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Adult-Onset Hysteria

This is some bullshit, right here. As we've already established, getting hysterical over the weight of a child is exactly the wrong direction in which to go. Especially when the body mass index makes no distinctions between bodybuilders and couch potatoes, men or women, children or adults. And this page explicitly says, "It's important to note that BMI calculations aren't accurate for everybody. They aren't used for children because a child's body is growing." [Emphasis mine.]

Much better to focus, like others are, on how schools are making money selling junk food to kids.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think what that article means is that adult BMI calculations aren't used for children, because there is a separate BMI calculation used for kids that is based on CDC data on weight percentile by age rather than the height-weight ratio used for adults. It is used as a standard measure by researchers who study pediatric obesity and by doctors who treat it, although I think it's considered less hard-and-fast than adult BMI.

-La Wade

3:20 PM  

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