I’m tired of the whole nonsense. One’s personal health is made up of so many more factors than weight or body fat. But if we weren’t endlessly and viciously body-shaming women, how would the pharma and beauty industrial complex do? Won’t someone think of the loss in profits! /s
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Agree
It was an example to illustrate the significance in body composition versus just weight.
No one is saying that 15% body fat is or is not healthy.
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Any reliable source for that statement?
Oh- the triggering comment was the 120 b person with 25 percent body fat being less metabolically healthy than the 120 lb person with 15 percent body fat
That
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I’m 5’8" and would look like I’d been in a gulag if I weighed 120lbs.
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I’m 5 foot 6, and I won’t lie. I liked being 120 lbs when I was 16 and when I was 22. The only problem is, I don’t like Diet Snapple and the only one way I could maintain 120 lbs long term would be to subsist on unlimited Diet Snapple, a bagel for lunch, and steamed vegetables for dinner.
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It may have been scientifically debunked, but it sure seems like a lot of people in the health care and insurance industries still use it as a meaningful yardstick.
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Yes, unfortunately. A nurse asked me last year if I was familiar with the BMI. I laughed.
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This mysteriously popped up on my curated feed. 
“I often see wildly inaccurate messages like these as I scroll through social media or scan story headlines in my news feed… And as a registered dietitian (or RD), I find nothing (like nothing ) more frustrating. Not only because of the time and energy I spent obtaining and now maintaining my degrees and dietitian status, but also because it reinforces the confusion folks already feel around what’s considered healthy.”
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I should’ve, being that I am a registered artist with them 
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When I was in my early 20"s I asked a personal trainer who was doing my fitness assessment what % of body fat I should aim for. He said zero. I am of average height and weighed about 125lb at the time. The lesson I learned that day is to never listen to a personal trainer at a gym. In retrospect I should have informed his boss of that dangerous advice. I was shy back then.
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Zero body fat? WTAF? For a woman, especially! The mind boggles 
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You yourself certainly at least implied it.
A 120 lb person with 25% body fat will be less metabolically healthy than 120 lb person with 15% body fat.
I got measured for body fat at my last checkup. I exercise regularly, my BMI was a bit under 20, but my body fat composition registered as … obese. My trainer called BS. Go figure.
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Good for you to have a BMI of 20. My BMI is around 30 right now. I haven’t had a BMI of 20 since my early 20s, unfortunately. It’s hard for me to keep it at 25, and it’s been 10 years since I last had a BMI of 25. I’ve been exercising the whole time, but I eat when I’m stressed and I have a stubborn metabolism when it comes to losing weight.
#ICYMI: the BMI is meaningless. Or, to quote yet another line from No More Ice Cream Sundaes:
There’s more important stuff to ponder than your BMI -
like fascism, impending doom, and coconut cream pie!
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I thought this looked interesting;
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