Final Post #5

In the beginning I was seeking to find and answer, if BMI was correct or not? I guess I always leaned more toward the “no” BMI is not correct. After all the research I had inquired about BMI I was disappointed to learned that there is not really an answer but more of different opinions from many different types of people like doctors, scientist and us. Each which provided reasonable examples like athletic people who were categorized as overweight, some who had disease who were considered underweight and many more.

I was very satisfied to find that each site I came across did all agree that the BMI formula was incorrect and could be improved but for some reason many still use this formula like health insurances. I don’t feel that my answer was directly answered but I do feel better learning and reading that BMI is NOT accurate and can be wrong. I learned there are many ways to find someone’s BMI one by measuring waist and taking that number dividing it by your hip measurement. I did it to myself and was very ecstatic to find I am “normal”.  After weeks of research I still wonder what is normal? Who says what normal is? What formula will we use to find this normal? Are we being cheated by health insurances that use BMI  which decide to cover your health needs? Is this a form of discrimination? How come the world has more obese people in it but we have people living longer?  Some things are not black and white and I feel this is a topic that unfortunately is not.

I don’t feel like I need to argue my research as far as if BMI is correct or not but I do feel it just opened my eyes  and the way I feel about the process of our health insurances and how it may be crooked. Who is the BMI benefitting?