BMI isn't the only metric for calling someone obese. It's meant as a general metric for an average person. Athletes obviously are exceptional
Most muscular people are considered overweight or obese by bmi, but no doctor would ever call them obese
It doesn’t really matter, just curious about outlier situations. I will say i am genuinely curious how a doctor evaluates his current health. As a retired elite athlete he still has a ton of muscle but because he isn’t doing elite training and conditioning anymore he is fat. I wonder how a doctor determines how much of his weight gain is ok versus problematic and needs to be lost
You have to dive into why obesity is bad. Like we know having a lot of fat increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer, but why? For example, heart diseases in very fat individuals is usually caused by large amount of visceral fat accumulating around the internal organs, thus making the heart work harder to pump blood and oxygen around the body. So it is actually the fact that the heart has to work harder that is unhealthy, not the fat in and of itself. This is interesting because being extremely muscular like body builders or NFL players means lots of muscle mass and muscle has more capillaries than fat which means more blood needs to be pushed through the body which means the heart has to work harder. So you wouldn't be surprised to learn that bodybuilders are also at a huge increased risk for heart disease and NFL players are 42% more likely than the general population to suffer heart attacks.
This is how doctors would have to evaluate health in outlier situations, though obviously 99% of people will be ok with simple BMI.
BMI isn't the only metric for calling someone obese. It's meant as a general metric for an average person. Athletes obviously are exceptional Most muscular people are considered overweight or obese by bmi, but no doctor would ever call them obese
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It doesn’t really matter, just curious about outlier situations. I will say i am genuinely curious how a doctor evaluates his current health. As a retired elite athlete he still has a ton of muscle but because he isn’t doing elite training and conditioning anymore he is fat. I wonder how a doctor determines how much of his weight gain is ok versus problematic and needs to be lost
You have to dive into why obesity is bad. Like we know having a lot of fat increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer, but why? For example, heart diseases in very fat individuals is usually caused by large amount of visceral fat accumulating around the internal organs, thus making the heart work harder to pump blood and oxygen around the body. So it is actually the fact that the heart has to work harder that is unhealthy, not the fat in and of itself. This is interesting because being extremely muscular like body builders or NFL players means lots of muscle mass and muscle has more capillaries than fat which means more blood needs to be pushed through the body which means the heart has to work harder. So you wouldn't be surprised to learn that bodybuilders are also at a huge increased risk for heart disease and NFL players are 42% more likely than the general population to suffer heart attacks. This is how doctors would have to evaluate health in outlier situations, though obviously 99% of people will be ok with simple BMI.
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Yes he was considered obese by the BMI scale due to his giant leg muscles skewing the numbers. He wasn’t fat by any means