187: The BMI Scale is Bogus: Here's Why
I have a feeling you've seen the Instagram graphics stating the ridiculous-ness that is the BMI scale. And I agree, it's bogus. And today's episode I'm going to help you understand why that is.
The best place to start is who came up with the BMI scale. The BMI scale was created by a mathematician, astronomer and statistician, Adophle Quetelet, in 1832 to measure weights across a given population, never designed to measure an individual's health or size. That's almost 200 YEARS AGO since the BMI scale was created! The BMI equation is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
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