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Message: <blockquote data-quote="otto" data-source="post: 319614" data-attributes="member: 2120">BTW, I don't think the BMI is a terribly accurate depiction of the average American build.  Not just fat, but muscle and bone.This is gonna sound like an "I'm big boned" excuse, but there's something to it... I'm overweight (but loosing it pretty fast) and if my bodyfat scale is even close to right I'd have to be at 6% bodyfat (very, very little) before I fit into the "overweight" category of BMI... that's just under the "obese".The problem with BMI is that it doesn't take into account where someone's weight comes from.  I have no proof, but I suspect American's bone mass (or *something*) is making us seem fatter than we are.  That isn't to say we're not overweight or even overfat, but I think the numbers are a bit skewed since we assume that any weight over the ideal *has* to be fat.</blockquote>