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neonlumberjack t1_iyj9kf5 wrote

Reply to comment by Dbol504 in Looking for a doctor who doesn’t use BMI by [deleted]

Age, race, and sex definitely play a role in weight. Men, for example, have less fat than women do. One reason for this is because women have breasts. So your doctor doesn’t solely base your weight on the BMI…that’s what I’m looking for lol

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CRMagic t1_iyjadi0 wrote

No one argued otherwise. The BMI is a tool, one that works in most cases, and has some known outliers, like just about any other tool used to determine things in medicine. Wholesale rejection of it because it doesn't work in your case is illogical. And your doc doesn't seem to be basing advice to you on it based on other comments in this thread, which sounds to me like you already have what you want.

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