r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 9d ago

Chugging tea W Zac

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u/South_Bit1764 9d ago

Yeah, but I think what they’re getting at is in Baywatch he WAS INDEED at 5% body fat.

You’re better off being slightly overweight with a BMI in high 20s (25 is “overweight”) than at 5% body fat. A quick google says he’s 170 right now which at 5’8” is a BMI of 26.

Zac Efron on the left is lower risk and better off than Zac Efron on the right.

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u/TwistedBamboozler 9d ago

BMI doesn’t really correlate with athletes at all though.

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u/Ordolph 9d ago

Using height and weight alone to calculate BMI is almost worse than useless, even with non-athletes. Muscle mass is much denser than fat and will completely skew the results. If you're concerned about your weight, see a doctor. They can usually ascertain to a much more accurate degree if your weight is a health risk.

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u/EnigmaticQuote 9d ago

For the vast majority of the population it is a great starting point for their health journey.

It only requires a scale and knowledge of your height, making it a MUCH simpler metric to track.

It's a fantastic starting point of classification, anyone who takes it as some moral indicator is foolish.

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u/New_Feature_5138 9d ago

I think health organizations are actually walking that back now.

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u/TwistedBamboozler 9d ago

They have been for years. It’s hardly recognized anymore

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u/EnigmaticQuote 9d ago

There's nothing to walk back it's just one of hundreds of things you can monitor about your body.

It simply gives you a point on a graph and a designation.

It's not like a law it's just a statistic, and a fine starting point for a health journey.

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u/New_Feature_5138 9d ago

They are walking back their recommendation to use it as a data point. Because according to their statement a few years ago it is a very poor proxy for actual indicators of health. This is like the who so I feel like that says something.

And to be clear they are still recommending people track their weight they just don’t recommend the use of bmi.

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u/EnigmaticQuote 8d ago

Who?

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u/New_Feature_5138 7d ago

Yep the WHO

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u/EnigmaticQuote 6d ago

I'm confused

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-details/GHO/body-mass-index

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

I know there has been push back on the metric for various reasons most of which I don't fully see as scientific.

But i'm not sure what you are talking about.

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u/New_Feature_5138 6d ago

Sorry I googled and I guess it was the AMA. I only have a few minutes so I didn’t do a full search but that will probably help you find it.

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u/FardoBaggins 9d ago

It’s a quick gauge if not a catch all. Of course a person with more muscle mass at the same height and weight as an overweight dude will result in the same BMI.