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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the charts are totally off for people who are very tall or very short. My husband is very tall and it always says he is borderline obese. He’s 195 lbs, 6’4” and all muscle so it’s a little ridiculous. Doing an actual body fat calculation would probably be more accurate.[/quote] Those stats don't even put him in the overweight category, let alone obese. They put him in the high end of healthy weight - which makes sense given his added muscle weight. BMI is not accurate for body builders and it is slightly skewed for people at the high and low ends of the height spectrum. There is a new BMI calculator that takes height into the equation in a more meaningful way. http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/new-bmi/ [/quote]
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