Super fit personal trainer and champion bodybuilder told she's OBESE by nurse

[Northerner]

A female bodybuilder has been branded bordering on obese and told to eat less and exercise more by an NHS nurse.

Anita Albrecht, 39 from Harold Hill, east London, was told she was ‘eating too much’ and needed to go on a drastic diet to lose weight during a routine appointment despite winning critical acclaim for her muscular physique.

The personal trainer who has competed against some of the best female bodybuilders has a below average body fat percentage and only stands at 4'11'' tall.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ld-diet-exercise-branded-obese-NHS-nurse.html

Makes you despair 🙄

 

[robert@fm]

This story illustrates two reasons why BMI is not the Holy Grail some health professionals believe it is:

1) It's based on the square of the patient's height, rather than the cube as it should have been, thus carries the hidden assumption that the patient is of average height (5'8", 1.75m or 1 Smoot).

2) It also assumes that at least a certain amount of body weight is fat. Muscle is denser than fat, hence tends to give a false positive for obesity, as in this case.

Far better to measure the actual body fat content, and thus get an accurate evaluation rather than the ballpark estimate which is BMI.

 

[Copepod]

BMI is particularly inaccurate for very short people.

In addition to calculating BMI, other health measurements should be used eg body composition can be calculated to use with special scales on which you stand with bare feet, holding handles for even more accurate calculation, including arms as separate limbs; plus waist measurement.

 

[HOBIE]

😱🙄😱???? What chance have we got !