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Old 08-31-2014, 01:39 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Hey, everybody! Le's use pseudoscience! Yay!
Not pseudoscience, but a measure applied as a quick screening tool for large populations of mostly-sedentary individuals. If you read any remotely-scientific article on it (starting with the Wikipedia one: Body mass index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) you'll see mention of the fact that athletic individuals will tend to have BMI in the "overweight" range because of increased muscle mass rather than fat.
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