Bone weight and structure also plays into BMI. A small framed 5ft 8 woman won't weigh as much as a large framed 5ft 8inch woman. My mother was 5ft 8 inches, had size 11 feet, wore a man's size large glove, and had a large frame with dense heavy bones. She was skin and bones, you could see her bones including ribs, hip bones, all of them, yet at 187 pounds was considered at the top end of overweight by her doctor. That's crazy. BMI doesn't take bone structure or muscles into consideration. It was made for insurance companies, not doctors. If you look good who care what your BMI is. It literally means nothing.
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