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It is my understanding that BMI is pretty much useless for the individual to know, but it is a valuable aggregate statistic. So it makes sense for the doctor to record your BMI for the national database, but you obviously have much better information and metrics to use on yourself.



My understanding was that BMI was pretty accurate for most people and only gets out of whack for more muscular people.




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