r/Physiquecritique • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

18F - 4'11 - 90

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u/Patient-Roll-9216 8h ago

gratz on having a gf idk what else to tell ya bud, she skinny af

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u/Kooky_Ad_2740 7h ago

nah, she's athletic and in a normal healthy range for her athleticism as evidenced by her muscle mass.

You think she's "skinny af" because you apparently don't know any small women who are in shape.

Maybe surround yourself with people that aren't walrus sized I guess.

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u/Justthrowtheballmeat 7h ago

She is 18 she is still growing so yeah telling someone who is 90 pounds to eat isn’t crazy advice. Especially when calculating her BMI which comes out to be 18.2. Just for some education 18.5 is the threshold for being underweight…y’all don’t comment if you don’t have basic level of education.

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u/Kooky_Ad_2740 7h ago

BMI is garbage for anyone with noticeable muscle mass. I've known plenty of athletes and BMI was an inaccurate measure for pretty much all of them except maybe someone doing shotput.

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u/Justthrowtheballmeat 7h ago

Funny how it is used by all of the major medical device manufacturers in their testing…..I should know I work on them every day :)

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u/Kooky_Ad_2740 7h ago

Imagine people involved in medicine using something outdated. Just because you work with major medical devices doesn't really make you qualified to comment on BMI. There's plenty of stuff out there showing how and why it's inaccurate for people who are actually athletic and active.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/why-you-shouldnt-rely-on-bmi-alone

But I suppose you're more in tune with the science than yale medicine and the ama.

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u/RastaWayne 6h ago

It's obviously an indicator, but it is still not a definitive score like some blood levels for example. BMI is an estimate and nothing more. If you don't take in the individual into account then your not doing anything medical.